How to Use on a diet in a Sentence
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There are a few telltale signs that your dog may need to be put on a diet.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
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Roscoe was on a diet of soft foods (only three teeth left).
—Noelle Mateer, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
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They’ve been put on a diet of fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, cooked meat and raw fish.
—Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
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Disney is going on a diet — but Hulu is still on the menu.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 May 2023
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Disney is going on a diet — but Hulu is still on the menu.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 May 2023
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Weight loss may not be as simple as going on a diet or spending more time at the gym.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
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Your feline friend cannot be maintained on a diet of only dog food, though.
—Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
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Native to Brazil, marmosets subsist on a diet of insects and the gum or sap from trees, experts say.
—Mitchell Willetts The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 26 Jan. 2023
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Semi-wild black pigs grow fat on a diet of acorns dropped by the forests of cork oaks across the southern Alentejo region.
—Paul Ames, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
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Some of Boback’s boas had been caught in the wild, but others had been reared in captivity and had always lived on a diet of dead rats.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2012
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She and her co-workers were forced to live in a cramped apartment for nearly three months, subsisting on a diet of rice and soy sauce.
—New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
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These birds typically weigh between 13 and 26 pounds and live on a diet of fish, squid and crustaceans.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2022
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Nautiluses feed on a diet of small fish, crustaceans and carrion.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
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Your first thought is to go on a diet, but as quickly as that enters your mind the ghosts of a hundred diets past return ... along with all the frustration.
—Fred Sassani, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Aug. 2024
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In addition, long naps reduce the body's ability to lose fat on a diet, Garaulet has shown.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
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The charging case has also been on a diet and is now 40% smaller than its predecessor.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 8 June 2021
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How to set up a spending diet plan The easiest way to put your spending on a diet is often to create a budget.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
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That might explain why some people struggle to lose weight through lifestyle changes, or why others regain weight lost on a diet.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2023
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Having been on a diet and developed a rigid, black-and-white mindset around eating (this food is bad, this food is bad) can also be a risk factor.
—Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 25 Feb. 2021
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Or did the obese dictator of the world’s most isolated country finally decide to go on a diet?
—New York Times, 29 June 2021
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Think of it as going on a diet and replacing bad habits with healthier ones to give our weary eyes some much needed downtime from tech.
—Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
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Our favorite teenage cannibals will have to go on a diet after Friday.
—Vulture, 26 May 2023
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But Gardner will be the first to say that there are many important nuances — such as the calorie deficit needed to lose a pound only grows as time on a diet progresses.
—Andrea Kane, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
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Not for long, of course, and the final tag reveals Doug is in Amsterdam, happily living on a diet of Stroopwafels.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
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Much like going on a diet, the most difficult work happens in the beginning, and the best motivation to keep going is to see results.
—Garry Wiseman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
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Mike Pompeo has lost 90 pounds on a diet and exercise regimen.
—Richard Galant, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
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The researchers have found that these superworms can survive on a diet of nothing but polystyrene, which is used in a vast array of products, ranging from cups to packing peanuts.
—Fionna Samuels, Scientific American, 9 June 2022
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The recent increase in SNAP benefits — which was based partly on a diet that includes more fish, and red and orange vegetables — was designed with that in mind.
—jsonline.com, 29 Sep. 2022
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DeLong’s team had found an organism that could not only survive but flourish on a diet of nothing but viruses.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
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Just really sticking on that, really sticking on a diet, and that just applies to everything else in this life.
—Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 31 July 2022
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