Even so, the surge in diesel fuel prices is eating steadily into profits.
Unaware of hunger, I ate little or nothing all day, then ate steadily all evening, often into the early morning, sometimes falling asleep with food in my mouth.
Rowan had ordered the pasta claiming to be a vegetarian, which seemed like another joke of some kind and he ate steadily, his lips coated with oil.
He ate steadily but boringly: plain bagels with butter, cheeseburgers with ketchup but no other adornments, slices of cheese pizza instead of the pizza with sausage, peppers and onion that Mom and Dad preferred.
I hadn't even paused to consider whether that might be a bad idea, but then, I'm not accustomed to questioning food -- I'm someone who eats steadily, unthinkingly, all day long, eating to calm myself, eating to focus, eating to be social.
After that, the flames ate steadily through the head's thick hair, the fine down covering the body, then fat, muscle, and innards.
They ate pretty steadily, because there wasn't much else for them to do.
By Marjorie Damsey Wilson The New Yorker, May 23 , 1936P. 17 Victoria was at home all alone eating sweetmeats steadily from a silver dish in her lap.
Those changes steadily eat away at that safety margin.
As a result, he speculated, land rents would come to eat up a steadily rising share of national income, threatening the capitalist system.Ricardo was wrong in the long run soaring agricultural productivity (which both he and Malthus failed to anticipate) meant that agricultural land was not the scarce factor for very long.
