How to Use food pyramid in a Sentence

food pyramid

noun
  • Life isn’t easy for creatures at the top of the food pyramid.
    Jill Barth, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Marlboro Lights were part of my food pyramid in high school.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Soon, vodka becomes her entire food pyramid, and even tiny Kit knows something is amiss.
    Washington Post, 31 May 2021
  • My three-cup-a-day habit, the foundation of my personal food pyramid, is costing a fortune.
    Doreen Christensen, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The notion of nuance is perhaps at the top of my food pyramid of fiction interests—this is so different from the hot take of the moment and the headlines.
    Thomas Gebremedhin, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • According to the food pyramid of our elementary school days, protein is red, brown, and beige: meat, poultry, fish, eggs, beans, and nuts.
    Sara Angle, Outside Online, 19 June 2018
  • Mozaffarian puts cheese in the middle of his personal three-tier food pyramid.
    Gilad Edelman, Wired, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The program boxed him into the Department of Agriculture food pyramid in return for subsidies the wealthy district didn’t need.
    Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Beef jerky, dried apricots, granola and fig bars, apples, sunflower seeds and peanut butter sandwiches are the pillars of my fishing food pyramid.
    Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The guidelines, their CliffsNotes version once known as the food pyramid, are the road map to how the government administers school lunches as well as food assistance programs.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Guided by this logic, the food pyramid, the triangle instrument and pizza slices would also be satanic.
    Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In the reality of feeding a struggling family, the food pyramid is irrelevant.
    Michelle Weber, Longreads, 21 May 2018
  • Unfortunately, there’s no CBD-specific version of the food pyramid.
    Purbita Saha, Popular Science, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Oceans are absorbing about 90 percent of the additional heat generated by climate change, which will likely have a substantial negative effect on phytoplankton and zooplankton—the base of the aquatic food pyramid.
    Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The concept is centered around Weil’s anti-inflammatory food pyramid and uses healthy, seasonal, sustainable and organic ingredients to create a diverse menu that includes vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free selections.
    Claire Perez, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2019

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