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
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
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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
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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
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
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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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