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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

A single breeding pair of sunflower stars can potentially produce thousands of offspring — many mouths to chomp down on urchins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 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

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

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Mrs. O’Leary chomp her fangs into a giant’s arm.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

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

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

Trey licks mayo from his fingers, chomps on the last piece of bread.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

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

Then he directed his teeth at my arm and chomped the air twice.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Some airlines are chomping at the bit to link up with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, as passengers clamor for access to quick and reliable in-flight wifi.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

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

By just sat there chomping down apples, so I tried to think what him and Buphead would talk about when they sat around like this.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis