How to Use feed in a Sentence

feed

1 of 2 verb

• The streams feed the creek.
• They used the wood to feed the fire.
• The children fed apples to the horses.
• These supplies could feed a small army for a week.
• He was too weak to feed himself.
• We fed the horses with apples, oats, and hay.
• He doesn't earn enough to feed a family of four.
• We feed the plants with a special fertilizer twice a week.
• The motor is fed by an electrical current.
• That’s bound to be the case with a duck that feeds on corn and acorns.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 15 Feb. 2024
• The Aztecs had the ball to open the second half and fed LeDee for a left-handed jump hook.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
• Snakes are known to feed on mice and rats that can be found around such places.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 21 July 2023
• At the 70-seat restaurant, the goal is to feed and entertain.
  — Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
• That’s a common refrain around here: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
• And if that’s not enough, the pool is also fed with hot spring water.
  — Christina Liao, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
• Much of the hay is used to feed cows locally or in nearby states.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
• And the amount of feed that goes to feed animals, to feed us, that equation just seemed wrong.
  — Allison Aubrey, CBS News, 9 July 2023
• Just feed it down your clogged pipes, and the micro-hook tip will grab hair, debris, and gunk.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• The one who fed our people, me, your parents and now yourself.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• But those big cans of film that once fed the projector are gone.
  — Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2024
• The animal was a slow swimmer that probably lived close to the coast and fed near the bottom of the sea.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• None of these recipes takes more than an hour, and all can easily feed a crowd.
  — Sarah Mosqueda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• Now they’re known to feed on and outcompete the native species in some of those fisheries.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2023
• Doing that at the surface helped feed all the subconscious stuff.
  — Vulture, 7 July 2023
• Or even if someone feeds thousands with one boy’s lunch, as John 6 tells us.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 25 Dec. 2023
• Add an acid plant fertilizer to the soil, and continue to feed once a month.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2024
• If the bags remain on the plant, new bagworms will hatch out and resume the feeding their parents started.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2024
• The zoo, in a follow-up post, urged visitors to refrain from feeding the bears.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• But Powell, while aware of the attention, tries to avoid feeding into it.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
• On busy weeknights, a quick stew is an easy, catch-all way to feed the whole family (and still have leftovers for days).
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2023

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feed

2 of 2 noun

• There's a jam in the paper feed.
• We had to cut off the main power feed.
• They're showing a live satellite feed of the event.
• The whole lot of them would run to greet us, eager for the scraps and then for the feed.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• There are tack rooms, feed rooms, and office space in the barns as well.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
• Noel took a feed, dribbled the puck with his stick and slammed the puck into the net with ease.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• Sign up for the free trial here to get a live feed of the Alcaraz vs. Medvedev match.
  — Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• Slick feed from Orlov to DeBrusk for the power play goal.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• Jolly stood outside as some walked across the street to watch it on a TV feed.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• And the amount of feed that goes to feed animals, to feed us, that equation just seemed wrong.
  — Allison Aubrey, CBS News, 9 July 2023
• In the 33rd minute, Asprilla’s header off the set piece feed by Evander went just high of goal.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2023
• That’s 10 months less feed, methane emissions and feces to deal with.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• On top of that, farmers had to deal with inflated feed and fuel costs.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 15 May 2023
• But this is all happening at, or around, the best deer feed in the area, whether that’s big-woods browse or mast, ag fields, or the best late-season food plots.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• This week, no Instagram feed was immune to the tennis takeover—and for great reason.
  — Grace McCarty, SELF, 15 Sep. 2023
• Brand trips have long been a staple — and an enigma — on our social media feeds.
  — Kailynn Johnson, refinery29.com, 9 May 2023
• More than half the water consumed in the basin is used to grow livestock feed — and ultimately to put meat and dairy on our plates.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• The look and feel is nearly identical to Twitter, and people’s feeds are already filled with memes and jokes.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Kara had linked up with Ojeda, who sent a perfect feed to a streaking Torres for the dagger off Klinsmann and into the back of the net.
  — Kyle Foley, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2023
• The right water hole, near a feed field with bare banks and maybe a dead tree or two nearby, can be a great place to sit in the last hour of daylight before doves go to roost.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• The app is still lacking some key features, such as a search function, hashtags, and a following feed.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 7 July 2023
• When the hand opens, there is a river, a river so wide the people on the other side are small as rabbits, half-frozen in their feed in the midmorning light.
  — Jesmyn Ward, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2023
• Who doesn't love a little extra fitness inspo in their feed?
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 19 July 2023
• This week's best beauty Instagrams saw the stars on our feeds finding their 2024 footing.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2024
• The comment also claimed that the singer archived her Solar Power cover art from her feed and changed her profile pic.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
• That post made its way into Diane’s feed, prompting a follow and the usual sizing-up.
  — Jolene Edgar, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
• Her Instagram feed includes photos of her son’s embryo and then of 3-year-old Brent as a baby.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• The Threads feed rarely appears in a chronological order and often serves up disparate posts from the same account in a row.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• An update on her story feed even shows a real-life breakfast bowl, as her creators seek to give her the illusion of a life.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 23 Nov. 2023
• Guests can also make a day of it by renting one of the six surfside cabanas, which come with cozy sofas, a mini fridge, a sound system, and live feeds of the wave.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024