(a.) Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial.
Example Sentences:
(1) It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion.
(2) There’s a friendly and convivial atmosphere in the beautiful base town of Waterton on the shore of the deepest lake in the Canadian Rockies.
(3) The emphasis is always on conviviality and enjoyment; on learning skills that have been lost over the last few decades – how to cook, grow food, repair and make things.
(4) Further east, in the Arade river nature reserve, is rural turismo Tapada do Gramacho (doubles from €75, tapadadogramacho.com ) with its convivial communal kitchen.
(5) Guests, who included Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, said the serenity encouraged candidness and conviviality.
(6) Desire to drink was greater in both Stressful and Convivial situations for those who scored higher on Neuroticism, Convivial Situations for those higher on Depression (Beck), and Boring situations for those higher on Sensation Seeking.
(7) It doesn't mean we couldn't design a more convivial way that promotes wellbeing.
(8) "It covers the cost of my travel and allows me to meet lots of interesting people – it's a convivial way to travel."
(9) Paris and Brussels are two very similar cities, very dynamic, convivial and warm,” said Hidalgo.
(10) When he ordered the bottle I had hoped sharing a drink might stoke conviviality but as the interview wears on it is clear the booze is to sustain him through the ordeal.
(11) He then became much more convivial, chatting about Washington Heights, where he was from, saying that he’d much rather be at home eating dinner with his family.
(12) It makes for more convivial towns and cities, can produce a more resilient food economy and acts as an important buffer against the extremes of a warming climate.
(13) Two and a half years ago, Women for Independence began as an inspired idea, given life over a convivial meal among like-minded women.
(14) At an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Saturday, the usual diplomatic conviviality unravelled as they failed to agree any practical steps out of the crisis.
(15) Once again, most of us will feel like spectators to the biggest debate about life on earth: whether or not to maintain convivial environmental conditions for human civilisation.
(16) But among the convivial crowds also stood a white man wearing a baseball cap and shirt that read “Hillary for Prison”.
(17) One concern arising from this widened perspective is the degree to which health service provision promotes healthier, more convivial communities.
(18) Still, the relative conviviality concealed major divisions between the security agencies and their congressional overseers.
(19) When Labour’s business team are out with the great and the good from Britain’s boardrooms over a City dinner, there has of late been a moment when the convivial hum of chatter subsides – and someone mentions the mansion tax.
(20) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian It’s more formal than his old parliamentary digs, which had the convivial feel of salon, or lair.
Eating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eat
(n.) The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
(n.) Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.
Example Sentences:
(1) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(2) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
(3) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
(4) The authors presented 16 cases that displayed episodes of pathological over-eating, i.e.
(5) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(6) You can get a five-month-old to eat almost anything,” says Clare Llewellyn, lecturer in behavioural obesity research at University College London.
(7) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
(8) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
(9) Second, 6 healthy volunteers were studied while eating a constant diet of 20 g of fiber plus 30 radiopaque markers daily so that mean daily transit time could be measured.
(10) In considering nutrition and circadian rhythms, time-of-eating behavior is an inherited, genetically controlled pattern that can be phase-shifted by conditioning or training.
(11) Rabbits eating Rabbit Chow excreted a very alkaline urine, but rats eating the same diet excreted much less alkali when expressed per kilogram of body weight.
(12) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.
(13) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(14) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(15) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(16) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
(17) He can't eat wheat – he has to have a special diet.
(18) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(19) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(20) Cues conditioned to food elicit eating by selectively activating appetitive systems.