chops

Example Sentences

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A lady friend, finding out they didn’t have food at the apartment, invited him and his friend to her place overlooking the ocean for a dinner of pork chops and stuffed portobello mushrooms.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Sumathi developed her reporting chops as a metro reporter, covering immigration, politics and education for Newsday, the Baltimore Sun, the News & Observer and the Providence Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

De Angelis and Waltz are also a hoot together, she as a heaving, hissing vampire bride who can’t stop licking her chops, he as a bone-dry vampire hunter dedicated to his investigation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

Private equity buyers are probably licking their chops; Orlando Bravo, the founder of private-equity firm Thoma Bravo, said as much during an interview from Davos last month.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

But he still took great pleasure in food, and he now prepared the pork chops slowly, enjoying himself as he worked.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen