How to Use diet in a Sentence

diet

1 of 3 noun
  • Add nuts and seeds to your diet.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Both can be part of a healthy diet.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 5 May 2026
  • The same was true across our diet.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Eat a diet that is high in fiber.
    — Eva Flowe updated May 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2026
  • Eat a diet that is high in fiber.
    — Eva Flowe april 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2026
  • My diet was turned on its head, too.
    — Sarah Harvey, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • These types of fats should be a small part of our diet.
    — Pamela Assid Woughter, Verywell Health, 31 Mar. 2026
  • He was put on a diet of mush and kept in a stall at night.
    — Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Fiber Adding more fiber to your diet is a good idea.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The horses cannot change their diet on their own.
    — Joshua Moen, STAT, 8 June 2026
  • Which one fits your diet best depends on your goals.
    — Brianna Tobritzhofer, Health, 12 May 2026
  • This isn’t a fad diet with a catchy acronym.
    — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Is there enough calories in a diet of crap to keep you alive?
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And the sport provides a steady diet of stress.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • This is common when adding high-fiber foods to your diet.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Include lean meats and fish in your diet.
    — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 3 June 2026
  • Try adding these 12 fall foods to your diet to boost health.
    — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Pizza squares on the diet-for-health trays.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Include full-fat dairy in your diet.
    — Roni Robbins, AJC.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Focus on a heart-healthy, fiber-rich diet.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But most people don’t get enough of these types of fish in their diet.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Do your best to stick to your low-sodium diet for longer than a week.
    — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Stolz, though, is now setting the record straight on his diet.
    — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Still, the report makes clear that diet change alone won’t be enough.
    — Bloomberg News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Broccoli sprouts are an easy and tasty way to pack a diet with sulphoraphane.
    — Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Wild cats pose an outsized threat to birds, which make up half their diet.
    — Sachi Mulkey, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Keep them thinking, and [a] good diet.
    — Will Croxton, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Chia seeds are a go-to for those looking to add more fiber to their diet.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Your routine and diet fall apart.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 12 June 2026
  • Your routine and diet fall apart.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2026

diet

2 of 3 verb
  • I've been dieting for two months.
  • My doctor told me my bloodwork is great, to relax, and not to diet.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2021
  • My doctor told me my bloodwork is great, to relax, and not to diet.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Can diet and nutrition affect your hair health?
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This matters because, when people lose weight through dieting alone, some of that weight may come from muscle.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Food noise is often amplified among people who are dieting, Batash said.
    — Peter Burke, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Sure enough, even in households in which there was regularly not enough to eat, people reported a desire to diet to lose weight.
    — Carrie Arnold, STAT, 25 June 2020
  • New research suggests that diets low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets may lower heart disease risk.
    — Brian Mastroianni, Health, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Both diets support heart health and blood pressure by emphasizing fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins.
    — Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The study also said a measure of beta-amyloid in the blood favored those who dieted and exercised compared to the control group.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024
  • Losing weight by dieting without exercising will result in losing muscle as well as fat.
    — Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Likewise, people with bigger bodies shouldn’t feel pressure to diet endlessly—or take any measure to change themselves—if that’s what works best for them.
    — Amelia Harnish, Women's Health, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Coaches could use these to test how competition is influenced by a wide variety of behaviors, from sleep patterns to diet to stance on the field.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Scientific American, 27 July 2021
  • For women, good advice about exercise has been particularly hard to separate from the pressure to diet and look hot.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Practicing stress management and sleep hygiene, as well as making adjustments to diet and exercise can help.
    — Olivia Lee, Charlotte Observer, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The struggle of a season prompted Diaz to focus on his body and diet this offseason, trading steak and rice for leaner meats and salads.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2022
  • This process cannot be directed to belly fat specifically but is more efficient than exercising and dieting alone.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This phentermine over-the-counter replacement is most effective for people who already diet and exercise or are starting a routine and need a pick-me-up.
    — Dallas News, 21 July 2022
  • Scientists are still working to understand the mechanisms, but research has shown that people who have lost weight burn fewer calories than people who never dieted.
    — Melissa Matthews, Men's Health, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Patients with osteoarthritis who dieted, exercised and took semaglutide lost more weight and reported a greater reduction in knee pain than those who lost weight with diet and exercise alone.
    — Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But anyone who has ever dieted can tell you that losing weight is hard and that long-term weight loss requires sustained effort, which can sometimes feel Herculean, even impossible.
    — Andrea Kane, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Can diet influence C-reactive protein levels?
    — Mary J. Scourboutakos, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Whenever my mom or I was dieting in the mid-’90s, meals from brands such as Healthy Choice became commonplace at the dinner table.
    — Meghan McCarron, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Among those who diet, the most popular method is low-carb or no-carb (16%), which could include the ketogenic diet—a low-carb, high-fat approach with moderate levels of protein.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Published in the journal Cell Host and Microbe, the study found that diets rich in casein, the main protein in milk and cheese, along with wheat gluten, could limit cholera bacteria in the gut.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Francona isn’t promising to be a New Tito, dieting carefully, working out maniacally.
    — Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The study evaluated 13 dementia risk factors, from physical inactivity to substance use to diet.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026
  • Critics worry the media attention encourages cancer patients to diet without adequate evidence.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2021
  • These options use similar artificial sweeteners to diet sodas and don't contain significant nutritional value.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 3 Feb. 2025
  • California lawmakers are targeting social media with a bill prohibiting social media platforms from having algorithms or features that expose children to diet products or lead them to develop an eating disorder.
    — Jesse Bedayn, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023

diet

3 of 3 adjective
  • So that was the diet part of it.
    — Nicole Pajer, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
  • By the end of the hours-long meeting, skepticism remained for the anti-diet crowd.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 24 Feb. 2022
  • But anti-diet culture doesn't typically focus on the benefits of weight loss.
    — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Intuitive eating is a ‘non-diet’ approach to a healthier relationship with food.
    — courant.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • There's also some debate about how diet sodas, specifically their artificial sweeteners, affect the gut microbiome and long-term health.
    — Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The anti-diet movement champions intuitive eating, which lets natural hunger and satiety signals guide food intake as opposed to calorie counting and macronutrient experiments.
    — Nick Heil, Outside Online, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Black and Hispanic youth, who have higher rates of sugary drink consumption than non-Hispanic White youth, were often the primary targets of advertising campaigns, the study found, especially for regular non-diet soda, sports and energy drinks.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 June 2020

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