"fat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During the winter, humpbacks fast and live off their fat reserves.
- They lay down fat reserves in preparation for the dry season.
- His body had eaten all its fat reserves, or so it felt, and was now feeding on the muscles themselves.
- Breeding is in the fall and depends on the female having built up sufficient fat reserves.
- His body generated its own heat by slowly burning the fat reserves he had stored up during the summer.
- Any movement would have burned up the fat reserves whose primary use was keeping him alive.
- The monarch requires significant energy to make such a long flight, which is provided by fat reserves.
- As the adults cannot take food, they depend on their fat reserves, and usually live for only 12 days.
- The young stay in the nest, living off their fat reserves, until the adults return.
- During this time the animals live off stored fat reserves.
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