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
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
He slapped his sandwich back together and took a chomp out of it.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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
Ralph Ineson chomps the scenery as Conor, who just wants to retire to his native Ireland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2018
“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
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
After he turned off the lights and left, I chomped on the lettuce I’d saved and basked in the warm glow of the streetlight—and my new friendship with Aldo.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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
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
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
He would pace the room, chomping on his cigar, his face getting very red as he wondered aloud why Hitler hated the Jews so much and why he blamed them for everything wrong in Germany.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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