How do you use the word "diet" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "diet" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "diet": Fruits and vegetables are essential to a balanced diet. We're going to eat a lot tonight so I hope you're not on a diet.

Diet Meaning

/ˈdaɪət/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

nounA controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.

Sentence Examples

Fruits and vegetables are essential to a balanced diet.

We're going to eat a lot tonight so I hope you're not on a diet.

Vitamin deficiency in the diet can cause illness.

CEFR Practice Quiz

Her strict ____ consisted only of fruits and vegetables every day.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Fruits and vegetables are essential to a balanced ____.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"It is common policy to order no more diet than will be used within one month." — 2013, Martin D Buckland, Lynda Hall, Alan Mowlem, A Guide to Laboratory Animal Technology, page 56:

"Last week the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new Trump-shaped void in our nation’s media diet." — 2021 February 3, Farhad Manjoo, “Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

"Many grocery chains offer premium-priced lean or diet hamburger; but the fat content is usually at least 10 percent, sometimes 15 percent or more." — 1982, Consumer Guide, Dieter's Complete Guide to Calories, Carbohydrates, Sodiums, Fats & Cholesterol, page 18:

"The difference in weight (mass) of the regular and the diet drink of the same brand roughly equals to the amount of sugar in the regular drink." — 1998, Andy Sae, Chemical Magic from the Grocery Store:

"Diet Light (Pizarro 724; snacks S2-7; 9:30am-10pm) This perennially busy place serves not-very-diet, but yummy nonetheless, ice cream (S2 to S5) and whopping servings of mixed fruit (S3) – with ice cream." — 2010, Lonely Planet Peru, →ISBN, page 347:

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