How To Use Well-fed In A Sentence

  • On February 26, 1874, Welch illustrated that evening's theme, ‘Sunshine and Shadow,’ with a depiction of a skeletal cur looking with envy at two well-fed dogs in a kennel.
  • Are the fields well administered, the livestock well provisioned, the family members well-fed, well-clothed, well-sheltered? John Dominic Crossan: With Liberty And Justice For All: Why The Bible Promotes Equality
  • A lion pride can bring down a water buffalo, and then defend the carcass against hyenas; a lone lion is unlikely to be very lordly, or even well-fed.
  • Erich Fromm's 1955 tome The Sane Society signaled the debut of the one-dimensional “marketing character” -- a robotic all-consuming creature who is “well-fed, well-entertained, but passive, unalive, and lacking in feeling.”
  • For some reason today he was smiling, though to Alec it looked like the grin on the face of a well-fed boa constrictor. THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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  • The turkey and black vultures at the park are well-fed and then scared into bringing up their food to supply the chicks.
  • While that may be overstating things just a little, it must be said that he has the air of a well-fed tomcat sitting on a square-mile of linoleum with a petrified mouse in his grasp.
  • The soft sound of a limousine purred through the area grating and two well-fed figures in sealskin coats, led by the "friendly visitor," appeared at the door. Hungry Hearts
  • If one were to move past the octaroon level to the “one drop” standard, one could keep some kids really busy not to mention well-fed getting in touch with their heritage. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judicial Discussion of Facts as Endorsement of Their Relevance:
  • This specimen is a lovely, relaxed, well-fed rosy boa constrictor. WHERE THE HEART IS
  • Moore exits the bank, thrusts the rifle into the air like some well-fed Sandinista, and over the freeze-frame says ‘maybe it's not such a good idea to give people a gun in a bank!’
  • For some reason today he was smiling, though to Alec it looked like the grin on the face of a well-fed boa constrictor. THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
  • They were often mummified - and, sometimes, mice were also entombed with the cats, to keep them well-fed on their metaphorical journey to the next world.
  • She drove off fast, past the careful lawns, the well-fed roses, LOST CHILDREN
  • In truth, he looked like a sleek well-fed cat, insufferably well-pleased with himself. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Well-fed cats of all sizes and colors—tabby, calico, tortoiseshell—padded among the old graves or watched with lambent eyes from the benches positioned throughout the cemetery. Etched in Bone
  • That is why well-fed artists of pencil and pen find in the griefs of the common people their most striking models.
  • A classic was the well-fed Ojukwu's use of his photogenically starving children to generate sympathy during the Biafran war.
  • They were often mummified - and, sometimes, mice were also entombed with the cats, to keep them well-fed on their metaphorical journey to the next world.
  • The turkey and black vultures at the park are well-fed and then scared into bringing up their food to supply the chicks.
  • This specimen is a lovely, relaxed, well-fed rosy boa constrictor. WHERE THE HEART IS
  • `Dan and Boxer have had a chance here to see what it's like to be happy and well-fed and safe. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
  • Carel gets philosophical with a young animal rights activist over predatory biophilia: "In essence, Tim and his hunter target audience are both motivated by the same animal drive: an innate love and fascination with other animals, that thing that Edward O. Wilson called biophilia, a trait that's strongest in the predators: the sated leopard that watches each gazelle with keen interest, the wolves that slaughter the silly contents of a sheep corral and leave them for the magpies, and the well-fed suburbanite, an SUV hauling his camo-clad ass up the mountainside. Archive 2006-09-01
  • We see how wealthy, well-fed and well-clothed humans suffer from a different kind of poverty. Consumed With Guilt
  • This bushy, indolent fellow, who is built like a well-fed possum, hangs from a rail by his tail, and hooks into his favourite snack, a salami sandwich.
  • As always, the rule is to twig where the natives are munching, stalk the local well-fed and you'll never go far wrong.
  • There he found Nicholas the fish, spread out in all his glory, like a polypod awash, or a basking turtle, or a well-fed calf of Proteus. Mary Anerley
  • The "bhai", when sarcastically affixed to a Gujju name, especially by a non-Gujju, reflects a certain state of Gujju being: well-fed and flashy WN.com - Business News
  • Protruding out the open sides were thick rolls of flesh that undulated like two well-fed seals.
  • Those averse to horses or not yet inclined to pick up a rod or gun could try their hand at zorbing or quad-biking, still be down-with-the-countryside with ferrets and falcons, see artists at work, and be extremely well-fed and watered in the aisles of the food show. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • An even higher dose killed all of the well-fed mice from a different genetic strain but none of the starved mice, and again the mice that fasted regained their weight.
  • It had been a well-fed astronomer from Cambridge who told me that, one of the series of smoothies my mother had pushed at me. SKORPION'S DEATH
  • It should be possible to be warm and well-fed, and to enjoy all the good things of life, while respecting the needs of the planet.
  • The former is incorrectly termed ovum, for it merely corresponds to what in well-fed sanguineous animals is fat; and thus it is that it makes its appearance in Testacea at those seasons of the year when they are in good condition, namely, spring and autumn. On the Parts of Animals
  • Those cultures farthest from the well-fed bacteria on the rightmost side of the plate were least slimy and least pink.
  • The English bowman, or billman, who carried a large axe or bill, was a strong, healthy, well-fed man; and though he had not perfect freedom, according to our modern acceptation of the term, he had an existence worth struggling for, and not entirely at the command of an imperious lord. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852
  • As we move into a well-fed and highly productive era, new diseases transmitted through our food are regularly emerging.
  • The participants fumbled around with the primary grotesquerie of speaking about evil at a well-fed and well-managed conference; this was well before we got to the unspeakability of evil itself.
  • With him was McNeilage, his mate, his face red and shining like a well-fed minister, and the drink to his thrapple. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • Also impressive are the portraits of well-fed burghers, such as the 1643 half-length figure of Paulus Verschuur, confident in his stylish hat, crisp collar and voluminous suit; a bare hand, gloves, sheer cuffs, a silken sash, curling hair and alert features are teased into existence with assured, staccato brushstrokes. Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
  • The sky is broodingly grey over the humid downs of the Barkly Tableland as a mob of well-fed white Brahman cows and calves quietly shift across the green expanse.
  • Every sailor had not the pluck to fight, and even when he had both the pluck and the good-will, hard drinking, weary days of tramping, or long abstinence from food had perhaps sapped his strength, leaving him in no fit condition to hold his own in a scrap with the well-fed gangsman. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • This specimen is a lovely, relaxed, well-fed rosy boa constrictor. WHERE THE HEART IS
  • For the first time in too many months he was well-fed, well-drunk, and well-satisfied. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
  • Although she was a well-fed woman, she picked at her food every Sunday evening, when Cassandra had prepared her meal. SLEEP WHILE I SING

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