Sentence examples for eating paper from inspiring English sources

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Jennings had a nervous habit of eating paper and a mannered way of sucking on sugar cubes.

Finally, if you are into weird behaviour by animals, you might have seen a puppy's response to being caught eating paper.

When the food runs out, guests start eating paper, drinking from water pipes and behaving very badly while a bear and a flock of sheep wander the house, and a disembodied hand enlivens proceedings (a couple of years before the Addams Family brought their version to TV).

He reported regular matchstick ingestion 25 years previously, eating paper safety matches daily during field training to prevent chigger (Trombicula autumnalis) bites.

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I'm dreaming of Ubers back from nightclubs, eating Wotsits at boring house parties, texting girls who probably aren't interested and eating paper-thin Maccy-D fries.

Several years later Mr. Cohn represented her when she directed her first film, "This Is My Life" (1992), in which one character is a talent agent who eats paper.

Sometimes, it seems as if we are like Shakespeare's schoolmaster Holofernes (in Love's Labours Lost) who is said, scornfully, to have eaten paper and "drunk ink".

She will go so far as to eat paper, rather than share her age.

His mental health issues were said to continue throughout his stay in prison, where King said Holmes would cover himself in his own feces, eat paper, lick the walls, and declare himself to be Peter Pan.

His mental health issues were said to continue throughout his stay in prison, where King said Holmes would cover himself in his own faeces, eat paper, lick the walls, and declare himself to be Peter Pan.

Because it's made of paper, by the time paper in a closed place can have insects that eat paper (the color or the insects are black or turquoise).

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