drool
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“He’s just standing there, you know, on all fours, and he’s got drool coming down,” recalled Peter, 69.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Check out Sussman’s website to drool over his selection and call ahead to see if your favorites are available.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
Meanwhile, Bentley tends to drool because of the tumor.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Castles, volcanoes and yurts — oh my — whiz past at a clip that would make a dice-roller drool.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
There was drool on my cheek and I wiped it off with the flat of my hand.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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“He looks like Zipco, he drools like Zipco — this guy smells like Zipco. And he’s talking to the so-called photographer, who is like a bug to him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
It changed the feel of the game as it pertained to one of the most awesome forces ever to hit the sport: the Alabama receiver laboratory, routine supplier of NFL drools and draft choices.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
Axel drools on the rug as the students try to read his mind.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2018
So for instance, if the baby drools, we’ll take turns riffing, calling her: Drooly Andrews, Drool Carey, Drooliana Margulies, Drool Barrymore, Ja-Drool, Droolius Caesar, etc.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2018
He drools over me for half a DECADE, but when I deliver myself to his front DOOR, he slams it in my FACE!
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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I coughed over the sink, hardly able to get a breath, until I gagged and drooled into the drain.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2026
As a full-time racer, there was no way to use him for the main event, even as Fox drooled over his availability following Jeff Gordon’s broadcast retirement at the end of the 2021 season.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
If you have drooled over the TV version of Sidney Chambers, the crime-solving English vicar on PBS’ “Grantchester,” you may be surprised by the books they’re based on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2020
She said that she based much of the character’s behavior on a socially awkward officemate she worked with as an accountant at Columbia Pictures, who drooled and stood too close to people when he talked.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2019
My shirt was wet where she had drooled a little bit.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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Symptoms of adder bites in dogs include pain and swelling, bruising, lethargy, drooling and vomiting.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
We barely touched the hors d’oeuvres while drooling over the cars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
“I’m drooling all the time because my mouth is not straight,” he said, and shook his head, disappointed.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
After three hellish days in a drooling, Dramamine-induced coma, I failed my check ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
When Ma is in the room, I often stand in front of the cabinet, my palms pressing flat against the glass, drooling at the candies.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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