How to Use on a diet in a Sentence

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  • There are a few telltale signs that your dog may need to be put on a diet.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Roscoe was on a diet of soft foods (only three teeth left).
    Noelle Mateer, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • They’ve been put on a diet of fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, cooked meat and raw fish.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Disney is going on a diet — but Hulu is still on the menu.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 May 2023
  • Disney is going on a diet — but Hulu is still on the menu.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 May 2023
  • Weight loss may not be as simple as going on a diet or spending more time at the gym.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Your feline friend cannot be maintained on a diet of only dog food, though.
    Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
  • Native to Brazil, marmosets subsist on a diet of insects and the gum or sap from trees, experts say.
    Mitchell Willetts The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Semi-wild black pigs grow fat on a diet of acorns dropped by the forests of cork oaks across the southern Alentejo region.
    Paul Ames, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Some of Boback’s boas had been caught in the wild, but others had been reared in captivity and had always lived on a diet of dead rats.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2012
  • She and her co-workers were forced to live in a cramped apartment for nearly three months, subsisting on a diet of rice and soy sauce.
    New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • These birds typically weigh between 13 and 26 pounds and live on a diet of fish, squid and crustaceans.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In addition, long naps reduce the body's ability to lose fat on a diet, Garaulet has shown.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The charging case has also been on a diet and is now 40% smaller than its predecessor.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • That might explain why some people struggle to lose weight through lifestyle changes, or why others regain weight lost on a diet.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Having been on a diet and developed a rigid, black-and-white mindset around eating (this food is bad, this food is bad) can also be a risk factor.
    Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Or did the obese dictator of the world’s most isolated country finally decide to go on a diet?
    New York Times, 29 June 2021
  • Think of it as going on a diet and replacing bad habits with healthier ones to give our weary eyes some much needed downtime from tech.
    Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Our favorite teenage cannibals will have to go on a diet after Friday.
    Vulture, 26 May 2023
  • Not for long, of course, and the final tag reveals Doug is in Amsterdam, happily living on a diet of Stroopwafels.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Much like going on a diet, the most difficult work happens in the beginning, and the best motivation to keep going is to see results.
    Garry Wiseman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Mike Pompeo has lost 90 pounds on a diet and exercise regimen.
    Richard Galant, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The researchers have found that these superworms can survive on a diet of nothing but polystyrene, which is used in a vast array of products, ranging from cups to packing peanuts.
    Fionna Samuels, Scientific American, 9 June 2022
  • The recent increase in SNAP benefits — which was based partly on a diet that includes more fish, and red and orange vegetables — was designed with that in mind.
    jsonline.com, 29 Sep. 2022
  • DeLong’s team had found an organism that could not only survive but flourish on a diet of nothing but viruses.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Just really sticking on that, really sticking on a diet, and that just applies to everything else in this life.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 31 July 2022
  • Policy, however, is a different beast — one best fed on a diet of courage and clarity.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Your biggest fibers, these produce the most force and operate on a diet of almost all anaerobic energy.
    Outside Online, 17 July 2020
  • Dogs are natural meat eaters, and puppies’ nutrient needs are most easily met on a diet that contains plenty of meat.
    Dallas News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In the years before the novel opens, Kettle has lost his wife and two adult children to an escalating sequence of tragedies and now subsists on a diet of fantasy and nostalgia.
    Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023

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