Sentence examples for eat copious from inspiring English sources

Many of us have watched children arrive at a party as reasonable, polite human beings, eat copious amounts of cakes and sweets and then transform into over-excited, over-energetic little devils – so how do we account for this? .

Clubbers and partygoers regularly make the switch from the downtown clubs of Beirut to check out the nightlife at altitude and eat copious amounts of mountain fondue, washed down with the local Almaza beer and arak.

Yet so many of us have watched children arrive at a party as reasonable, polite human beings, eat copious amounts of cakes and sweets and then transform into over-excited, over-energetic little devils – so how do we account for this?

Instead of a traditional rite of passage like a bar mitzvah or a co-ed birthday party, Carl got to kill zombies and eat copious amounts of pudding!

I read that human beings who lift a lot of weights are allowed to eat copious amounts of saturated fat, and that it's likely that it actually makes our brains bigger and better.

As a livestock farmer, I make use and take advantage of -- nefariously, I believe now -- all of the sheep's instincts: to eat copious amounts of grass, to drink water, to lick salt and minerals, to flock together, to breed, to give birth to and attend to newborn lambs, to fight off thieves, to stumble around relentlessly to satisfy an irresistible first thirst.

But about twenty years ago, while in the Friuli region, my husband and I ate copious portions of it at the Mulin Vecio, a lively osteria in the pretty tree-lined town of Gradisca d'Isonzo.

Sarah has become increasingly sensitive to the taste of garlic, whereas I adore it and will happily munch it raw, but birthday meals are sacrosanct so I made it pungent and ate copious quantities.

With opera music playing softly, the group gathered in the library's basement, drank Italian wines and ate copious servings of food made by the Italian-born circulation manager, Franca Care-McGowan.

There was vanity in the sempiternal deep tan, the long hair and open shirts and large silver crucifixes, as well as the hawk-like stare from his immense height; there was crass materialism (as well as much convivial happiness) in eating, copious drinking and the driving of fast, beautiful cars.

Most unique souvenir: Do the 10lb I gained from eating copious amounts of schnitzel in Munich count as a souvenir?