ate
IPA: ˈeɪt
noun
- (Philippines) An elder sister
- (Philippines) A respectful title or form of address for an older woman.
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Examples of "ate" in Sentences
- A whiter man than Jack Westondale never ate from the same pot nor stretched blanket with you or me.
- In its original form, the two-story, four-bedroom cottage represented the best in Italianate-style architecture.
- During that supper, Gauvain ate and Cimourdain drank, a sign of calm in the former and of agitation in the latter.
- The acid bite of belly desire had long since deserted him, and he, too, ate from a sense of duty, all meat tasting alike to him.
- They ate hurriedly and gloomily, with but little conversation, and as Martin ate and listened he realized how far he had travelled from their status.
- I know this because we slept in the one bed and ate from the one pot, and became blood brothers where men lost their grip of things and died blaspheming God.
- Memories of a childhood spent in mango orchards, the first dessert that you and your sweetheart ate from the same dish, the festive lunch made by a favorite aunt five years ago that you can still taste in your mind, the first time you encountered some exotic cuisine … all these are human interest stories that make a recipe very special.
- In the end it looked like someone had pulled it all apart and stirred it together and mounded it back on the plate. (whenever someone wanted some, they just grabbed a spoon and ate from the plate-tres communal) It still tasted amazing as always, but the whole time I was sitting on a stool watching her and I wasn't allowed to say anything to help as she wanted to do herself.
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