They cooked their food and ate it in uncomfortable confinement, the shreds and crumbs of unreality giving the evening shape.

NEWYORKER: The Woman of the House

Then he made a sandwich out of the muffin and the eggs and ate it in a very few bites.

NEWYORKER: Free Radicals

"The minibar thought I ate everything in it, " said Mr. MacKenzie, director of communications for VisitPhoenix, the Arizona city's tourism bureau.

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The ancient Egyptians ate goose, and it has been popular in Europe since the Middle Ages.

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We found a couple of tortoises which we killed and ate, it's sad but we were in a survival situation.

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As we ate, it felt sort of like we were all holding hands in the dark.

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It has struggled in recent years as cost-cutting ate into reliability (Ryanair, by contrast, has a good reputation for punctuality and keeping passengers together with their luggage).

ECONOMIST: Budget airlines

We tagged and cleaned it anyway, and later that day ate the tenderloin and a few other tasty bits in wine gravy with mushrooms.

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Once in a while I skipped lunch, even though it was part of my salary, and went in to Amundsen, where I ate in a coffee shop.

NEWYORKER: Amundsen