Examples of serving in a Sentence
This is my third serving of mashed potatoes.
According to the package, one serving size is 6 ounces.
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Globally, it is estimated that 80 percent of banana production, equivalent to billions of servings, is under threat from TR4 and there are currently no commercially viable resistant replacements ready for large-scale planting.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
The study found that people who ate about 11 servings a day of ultraprocessed food — compared to people who only ate three — had a 2.5-fold greater likelihood of exhibiting three or more of the early signs of Parkinson’s.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 7 May 2025
Heavy drinkers had eight or more standard drink servings weekly, while moderate drinkers had one to seven servings of alcohol per week.
—Cathy Nelson, Health, 7 May 2025
Compared to the one-gram-per-pound benchmark, which would tell her to eat at least 170 grams, that’s a difference of one to three servings of chicken breast, or two to three cups of plain Greek yogurt (cows suffer a lot for that!).
—Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 May 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
The study found that people who ate about 11 servings a day of ultraprocessed food — compared to people who only ate three — had a 2.5-fold greater likelihood of exhibiting three or more of the early signs of Parkinson’s.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 7 May 2025
Heavy drinkers had eight or more standard drink servings weekly, while moderate drinkers had one to seven servings of alcohol per week.
—Cathy Nelson, Health, 7 May 2025
Compared to the one-gram-per-pound benchmark, which would tell her to eat at least 170 grams, that’s a difference of one to three servings of chicken breast, or two to three cups of plain Greek yogurt (cows suffer a lot for that!).
—Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 May 2025
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“Serving.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/serving. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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