chomp
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Some cats love to chomp on power cords.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
What does the bubble gum they chomp during “Too Pooped to Pop” give them?
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
And feel totally comfortable slipping them on as I grade papers from my memoir students, blast Lil Durk from my portable speaker and take a massive chomp out of a piece of avocado toast.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023
He slapped his sandwich back together and took a chomp out of it.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
Even the way she chomps a cherry off a cocktail toothpick has menace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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
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
Dismay was chewing hard, in great big chomps.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
“There’s really only one reason for it to be dead,” Roberts noted, and that is “because something chomped it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
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
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
The kid had done the unthinkable, he had chomped on one of Mars’s own bars.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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
“We’ve been chomping at the bit to get going,” Wong said, “and these are the funds that accelerate things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
The chaotic recording sessions featured a bucket of fire and musicians chomping vegetables.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
There is, of course, some suspicious, terrifying revelation promised that will surely result in lots of screaming and chomping.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2025
“A baby shark swam through the grates and has grown and grown and is now big enough to eat you,” the boy said, and he made a chomping motion with his arms.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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