FAT in a Sentence

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For FAT, below is one of 233 sentences:
Each time he arrived in Atlanta, she set her fat mouth and told the girls that she would meet him at the door and forbid him to enter.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fat
 a.  having a lot of flesh on the body
 a.  thick or large
 n.  a solid or liquid substance from animals or plants and used especially in cooking
 n.  the substance under the skin of humans and animals that stores energy
Classic Sentence: (177 in 12 pages)
1  Casting contemptuous glances at them, Scarlett thought that they looked like a clump of fat crows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Scarlett longed for the fat old arms of Mammy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  The musicians clambered upon their platform, black, grinning, their fat cheeks already shining with perspiration, and began tuning their fiddles and sawing and whanging with their bows in anticipatory importance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  The old lady had recognized Ellen's handwriting and her fat little mouth was pursed in a frightened way, like a baby who fears a scolding and hopes to ward it off by tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Aunt Pitty's fat mouth popped open and Uncle Peter turned to stare.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Each time he arrived in Atlanta, she set her fat mouth and told the girls that she would meet him at the door and forbid him to enter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  Aunt Pitty knew nothing about men, either with their backs up or otherwise, and she could only wave her fat little hands helplessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  Besides, the fat Dutch woman who is sitting on the throne is a God-fearing soul and she doesn't approve of slavery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  Scarlett braced the fat old lady on the other side, her heart singing with joy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  They fed their prisoners on what the soldiers in the field were eating, fat pork and dried peas, and on this diet the Yankees died like flies, sometimes a hundred a day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  The day was hot and the flies came in the open windows in swarms, fat lazy flies that broke the spirits of the men as pain could not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  Uncle Henry was minus his umbrella and carpetbag now, and his fat stomach as well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  The skin of his pink fat face hung down in loose folds like the dewlaps of a bulldog and his long white hair was indescribably dirty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  The room where Suellen and Carreen lay mumbling and tossing on the same bed stank vilely with the smell of the twisted rag burning in a saucer of bacon fat, which provided the only light.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  For a moment, the breath went out of Scarlett's lungs in a sickening gasp and she could only stare at the fat old lady who was so obviously pleased at the effect of her statement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
16  Despite its very low fat content, it is deliciously creamy.
17  People should eat less fat to reduce the risk of heart disease.
18  An excess of fat in one's diet can lead to heart disease.
19  People should, ideally, eat much less fat.
20  I could eat what I liked without getting fat.
21  I expect you had to pay a fat fee to your divorce lawyers.
22  Fill up on potatoes, bread and pasta, which are high in carbohydrate and low in fat.
23  Leave a thin covering of fat.
24  Low - fat foods are ideal for people who are watching their waistline.
25  They work long hours in order to take home a fat wage packet.
26  It ain't over till the fat lady sings.
27  The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.
28  Some large chains of supermarkets publish booklets on calorie, fat, and fibre content of their foods.
29  Your extra fat may be more of a health risk than you realize.
30  Try to reduce your intake of fat.