Definition of eating
1 : used for eating eating utensils
2 : suitable to eat the finest eating fish; also : suitable to eat raw an eating apple
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Examples of eating in a Sentence
crab apples are not actually eating apples
Recent Examples of eating from the Web
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The large kitchen has a European country feel, featuring encaustic tiles with blue and gold Moroccan patterns and two eating areas: a tabletop built into the island and a dining table sitting in front of a floor-to-ceiling window.
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To her Instagram followers, Tupper's strict eating habits might have appeared normal.
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By moving the rear kitchen wall out five feet, owner-designer Benjamin Silver made room for an eating area opposite the front entry and a door to the new dining room (formerly a sunroom).
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First Known Use of eating
15th century
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