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
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
What does the bubble gum they chomp during “Too Pooped to Pop” give them?
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Each year, fans pick their favourite of 12 plump brown bears from Alaska's Katmai National Park that have gathered along the Brooks River to chomp on salmon and pack on as many pounds before winter.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023
“Guess I’m lucky the Government outlawed pets. Didn’t farmers always used to keep big guard dogs that would chomp people's heads off in one bite?”
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
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
“Huh. Where’s the hippo that chomps on people?”
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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 “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 that bit with an all-action showing, but the lack of knockout power which has only seen him stop eight opponents in 32 fights was on show again here.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
“One of the longest one-syllable words in the English language is ‘screeched’,” Connor announced one afternoon as he chomped on a raspberry Twizzler.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
He got his start by creating beats for stars including Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, before chomping up the charts in his own right.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
“Only one thing missing,” the Burger King president said, wiping at his mouth with his hand after chomping into one of the chain’s Whoppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
There is, of course, some suspicious, terrifying revelation promised that will surely result in lots of screaming and chomping.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2025
When I wrote “Bad Mormon,” I needed to trim it down, so I was just chomping at the bit to write a second one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
Charlie snuggles up to Hilda while chomping on a piece of purple fruit that looks like an alien egg.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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