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[drool] / drul /






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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

They need a sizable guaranteed income, great health care and a comfortable living until they freeze in a blank stare and drool from a podium in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2025

And when you fall asleep together watching “Footloose” for the 100th time, both of you might wake up in a puddle of your own drool.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2025

Julie Denzin, who has worked as a restaurant server in Milwaukee for more than a decade, has watched dogs drool, fight, growl and relieve themselves on restaurant patios.

From Seattle Times May 15, 2023

She hung over her knees, letting drool and bile spill on the floor.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

His unbridled praise for Tom Brady drools across the text.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 2022

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

She is beautiful and everything she does is adorable, including the way she drools.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

I coughed over the sink, hardly able to get a breath, until I gagged and drooled into the drain.

From Slate Jun. 13, 2026

Yes, my audience giggled dutifully at the jiggling Jell-O salads and drooled over the groovy conversation pits in the Richards’ living room, the only super lair I’d ever live in.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2025

I drooled a little watching Machado and Mark take bites of the face-sized empanadas, which were perfectly golden brown, bubbly in the right spots and oozy, not greasy.

From New York Times Jul. 5, 2023

Baird in mop-up duty that drooled in with 21.8 seconds left.

From Seattle Times Mar. 28, 2019

Even a baby, wrapped behind his mother’s back, flashed a gummy grin and drooled at me.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

I listen now to some commentators drooling over substitutions that change games, and what a genius the manager was to make those changes.

From BBC Feb. 13, 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

He called 911 as his wife was drooling, lying on her side and having trouble breathing, the video showed.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2025

After three hellish days in a drooling, Dramamine-induced coma, I failed my check ride.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

“Oh, all share. But not alike. The Second Sons are not unlike a family...” “... and every family has its drooling cousins.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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