Sentence examples for eat bark from inspiring English sources

Shortly after Billy was born, I noticed that he possessed an unusual affinity for organic play, because whenever I took him on picnics he would eat bark.

He said China could make better fighters out of men obliged to eat bark than out of the chauffeurs from Shanghai.

One explanation, dismissed by scholars as a tall tale, is that it's a corruption of the Mohawk word rat-eh-ron-tak, meaning those who eat bark.

The Iroquois are said to have used this term to describe their enemies, the Algonquins, whom they considered to be such lousy farmers that they were forced to eat bark in the winter months.

We seemed to be endlessly initiating Milt into our gang by making him climb difficult trees, hang out of upper story windows by one arm, eat bark and, yes, remove all of his clothing in the dark and run across the street in the headlights of a passing car.

But as you can see in the video above, grasshopper mice routinely kill and eat bark scorpions, blissfully munching away even as their prey sting them repeatedly (and sometimes right in the face).

Others said they ate bark from the pine pillars used to construct the mine.

Pretty much everything was cut down for firewood or food — people resorted to eating bark.

But, unfortunately, the lowest ring of eaten bark may be very low indeed.

He lives in the remote industrial city of Chongjin, at a time when people are eating bark and grass.

Nourishment flows up from the roots through the green inner bark, which means that everything above the ring of eaten bark will die.