Examples of use of -ate
1. "For the next ten months we just ate and ate and ate," Irene laughed.
2. "We ate and ate and ate, and still had some to go home," she said.
3. They ate their animals, then they ate their dead.
4. If I was sad I ate, if I was happy I ate, if I was lonely I ate.
5. When he was upset, he ate, when he was happy he ate.