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drool

[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

He was lethargic, his chest soaked with drool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

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

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

Sweetie Pie stroked Winn-Dixie’s head so long and serious that his eyes drooped half closed and drool came out of the side of his mouth.

From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo

A dog isn’t a furry, four-legged human that drools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

When I put dog food in my dog’s bowl, she drools until she can start eating.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2020

One side of her mouth swallows the rice gruel while the other side drools and spits the food back out.

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

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

I attended, and yes, I drooled as they passed the bowl of guacamole, the many different types of salsas and all of those beautiful tacos and tostadas directly in front of my hungry face.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2023

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

I still couldn’t stop, even though I was soaking him worse than Joey ever drooled on anybody.

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

The bottom line: Stop drooling about them and do what they should have been doing all along: Invest in index funds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Symptoms of adder bites in dogs include pain and swelling, bruising, lethargy, drooling and vomiting.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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

Naomi forced Abuelita out of her mind, but the image of Abuelito, bedridden and drooling, remained.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez


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