chomp
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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
Now they are poised to chomp off parts of the country’s center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
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
What does the bubble gum they chomp during “Too Pooped to Pop” give them?
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
“Grace,” he grumbled, and picked up his meat by the bone and took a big chomp, then chewed, mostly with his mouth open.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
Sumi chomps on the meat approvingly, trying her best to avoid the kibble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
“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
We meet up once a month to grab food at a market and then shop, and while eating, she slurps, chomps, smacks, burps, makes “mmm” and “nom” sounds, and talks with her mouth full.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2019
Brickz chomps and slobbers over some ribs in his corner.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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
The most teeth-grinding great team in baseball chomped through a legacy of frustration on the sort of October night that, while once forgettable, now will live forever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
The young meat-eater had chomped off the hind legs of two parrot-like dinosaurs called caenagnathids before perishing itself.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 8, 2023
A monkey stole his baton and chomped off the tip.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
She dipped a pretzel in peanut butter and chomped it.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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
Clips of her splashing in her pool or chomping on melons have racked up millions of views all over social media.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
The chaotic recording sessions featured a bucket of fire and musicians chomping vegetables.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
The desert setting and chomping alien monsters give “The Last Dance” a whiff of “Starship Troopers,” a soupçon of “Tremors,” nodding to those self-consciously campy B-movie creature features of yore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
We had certainly done our parts in chomping through the corn surplus.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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