chomp
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In his Barstow video, he hadn’t bothered to chomp into the Del Taco ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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
If the girl was able to chomp down on her desired apple on the first try, that signified that she was destined to be with her sweetheart.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 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
She talks in a sparkling way, and fast, while the scissors chomp chomp, and I worry she may be chopping chopping big holes where there should not be any.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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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
The Wolf Pack didn’t just nibble away at Cincinnati’s lead; they took loud, impolite chomps that could wake Emily Post from the grave.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2018
Since then, he occasionally sidles up to me for a lunch-line chat while he chomps on a basket of cafeteria fries.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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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
By April, Alligator had chomped into the US Top 10, and the UK Top 40.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
The “confirming sign” is the roughly eighth-inch holes where the adults have chomped through to emerge and mate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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
He chomped his teeth and I could smell his bad breath.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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In the 1980s, the most iconic look in the National Football League belonged to a cigar chomping man in a Chicago Bears sweater vest named Mike Ditka.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
The chaotic recording sessions featured a bucket of fire and musicians chomping vegetables.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
“I’ve been chomping at the bit to get the opportunity to be able to lead and show who I am as a player on a different scale,” Plum said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
We had certainly done our parts in chomping through the corn surplus.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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