feed

[ fiːd]

Definition:
1. Provide as food.
2. To give food to a person or an animal.
3. Support or promote.
4. Supply.

Use 'feed' in a sentence:

• 1. Feed the plants once a week.
• 2. The cattle are fed barley.
• 3. The grain just rotted and all they could use it for was animal feed.
• 4. The baby can't feed itself yet.
• 5. Slugs feed on decaying plant and animal material.
• 6. She was feeding documents into a paper shredder.
• 7. Feed plants and they grow, neglect them and they suffer.
• 8. The hen may not be able to feed its young.
• 9. You can't feed a family on £ 50 a week.
• 10. The barley is fed to the cattle.
• 11. He took the compact disc from her, then fed it into the player.
• 12. What do you feed the poultry on?
• 13. Slugs and snails feed at night.
• 14. The fabric is fed through the machine.
• 15. The longest chapter in almost any book on baby care is on feeding.
• 16. Birds feed on nuts and berries in the winter.
• 17. I'm fed up of seeing the same old faces every time we go out!
• 18. They needed a bath and a good feed.
• 19. The x-ray detectors feed the input into computer programs.
• 20. She criticizes me for the way I feed or change him.
• 21. For drug addicts, the need to feed the addiction takes priority over everything else.
• 22. Feed the baby on demand.
• 23. A feed will usually provide instant gratification to a crying baby.
• 24. In the end, I just got fed up with his constant complaining.
• 25. Let's feed my lambs.
• 26. I knew absolutely nothing about handling or feeding a baby.
• 27. The cattle are fed on barley.
• 28. Have you fed the cat yet?
• 29. An automatic weather station feeds information on wind direction to the computer.
• 30. Now there would be another mouth to feed.
• 31. The baby can't feed itself yet (= can't put food into its own mouth) .
• 32. Feeding a hungry family can be expensive.
• 33. The printer has an automatic paper feed.
• 34. I have to feed the chickens and hoe the potatoes.
• 35. He needs feeding up some.
• 36. Let children feed themselves.
• 37. When a baby is thirsty, it feeds more often.
• 38. The divorce was painfully public, feeding her dislike of the press.
• 39. Flycatchers feed primarily on winged insects.
• 40. I have a hungry family to feed.
• 41. Gossip and speculation are constantly fed to us by the media.
• 42. Feed the dogs because they haven't eaten.
• 43. Not all women have the choice whether or not to breast feed their babies.
• 44. We are constantly fed gossip and speculation by the media.
• 45. After a few days the caterpillars stopped feeding.
• 46. People are fed up with all these traffic jams.
• 47. I'm so fed up I could scream!
• 48. They were helping to chop wood to feed the red maw of the stove.
• 49. Butterflies feed on the flowers of garden plants.
• 50. The drinking and the guilt fed on each other.
• 51. Can you feed the cat, please?
• 52. There are numerous signs warning people not to feed the alligators in the area.
• 53. We brought along pieces of old bread and fed the birds.
• 54. He was surrounded by people who fed him ghastly lies.
• 55. There's enough here to feed an army.
• 56. She was on her own with two kids to feed and clothe.
• 57. At least one British officer was feeding him with classified information.
• 58. She fed him a cookie.
• 59. He needed money to feed his addiction to gambling.
• 60. They have a large family to feed.
• 61. Lack of chicken feed means that chicken farms are having to slaughter their stock.
• 62. Test results will be fed back to the schools.
• 63. The animals all looked well fed and cared for.
• 64. It will take time for the higher rates to feed through to investors.
• 65. Power is fed into the electricity line through an underground cable.
• 66. The electricity line is fed with power through an underground cable.
• 67. The report's findings will feed into company policy.
• 68. Feed plants to encourage steady growth.
• 69. What the audience tells me feeds back into my work.