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chomp

[chomp] / tʃɒmp /
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champ
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The city has already deployed goats to chomp away at invasive brush along the hillsides, but Cosgrove, who wrote Measure M, said more work is necessary to protect the community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Australia's oceans are teeming with sharks, with great whites topping the list of species that might fatally chomp a human.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

After eating late-night stomach-turning Popeyes in Paris and shedding some tears, we stayed in a trippy '80s-styled hotel, fearful of Parisian bedbugs ready to chomp on our American flesh.

From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2025

They can consume up to 11kg of insects a year, and just one can chomp as many as 50 bees a day.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024

He slapped his sandwich back together and took a chomp out of it.

From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli

Then he flops down and chomps on a stuffed Chewy Vuiton Paris bone toy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

Tampopo grows its arugula under insect netting to fight the Northwest flea beetle that otherwise chomps on the leaves.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

“Shut up!” the queen barks at Kate, and proceeds to grill her while a menacing, Cockney-bruiser Philip chomps on a toothpick and plays with the future princess’s hair.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022

Rapping like a cartoon rottweiler, Em chomps his way through the beat in a way that is linguistically dizzying.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2020

A lone raptor stood in the shadowy stable area, devouring some small pest with messy chomps and snorfs.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

Then, when a wildfire comes through and natives begin to regrow, they’re chomped back down, creating a vicious cycle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

By April, Alligator had chomped into the US Top 10, and the UK Top 40.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

As the herd chomped through their rations, another military truck carrying visitors “ooh’d” and “ahh’d” while they circled the animals.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

His horse-eyes were wild with excitement and his big, yellow teeth chomped on something that smelled like spoiled eggs.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Some airlines are chomping at the bit to link up with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, as passengers clamor for access to quick and reliable in-flight wifi.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Tom Curtis has gone viral by recording a video of himself chomping on a Whopper and even posting his phone number online.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

It’s a different side to Carroll, whom NFL fans might better recognize bouncing down the sidelines for the Seattle Seahawks, or hunched over with hands on knees, chomping gum and laser focused on his players.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025

You wouldn't recognise him now but millions around the world have watched him, as a baby, chomping on his big brother's digits.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

“Without me, y’all would be chomping on carrot sticks all day.”

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist


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