Sentence examples for ate slightly from inspiring English sources

In 1974, Americans ate slightly less than nine pounds of turkey a year.

They didn't start eating any more food – if anything, they ate slightly less – but they converted more of that food into fat and so put on more pounds.

Almost all of the participants ate slightly more, and slightly unhealthier, food on the Sunday of the game, but those whose NFL team lost consumed far more junk food the next day than those whose team had won or had not played, or those who did not follow football at all.

When the protein studies were finally published, the findings, perhaps unsurprisingly, were split: Good showed that the Yanomami in his village ate slightly less protein than what's in a Big Mac; Chagnon and Hames showed that their group ate much more.

In studies where subjects were asked to binge, eating as much as they possibly could, subjects with binge eating disorder ate slightly less than bulimic subjects, and were more fussy about the foods they chose to binge on, Dr. Kissileff said.

When the team served some kids the lightly sweetened vegetables for a month, they ate slightly more vegetables.

Doing this allows you to eat slightly less at your meals, giving your body a more manageable amount of food to digest, and keeps your blood sugar steadier throughout the day because you're not going for six hours at a stretch without eating.

Sitting in a deckchair and eating slightly gritty sandwiches off perfectly chipped crockery.

And on January 16th America's agriculture department published a report showing that Americans are eating slightly more healthily.

Dr. Field said children who dieted reported eating slightly less fat and slightly more carbohydrates than children who didn't and described themselves as exercising a bit more.

First, his noticing that the global food industry was "fucking up the world" and, second, as a way to encourage people who didn't really care what they were eating to eat slightly more healthily.