fatten

Example Sentences

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It’s also possible that retailers, figuring that consumers would expect to pay more for tariffed washing machines and would assume the same effect held for dryers, charged more for the latter to fatten their profits.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Neither did the temporary suspension of export taxes for grain dealers, which generated dollar inflows but didn’t fatten the bank’s war chest because there was also lots of peso selling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

Hormones are usually used to fatten cattle in the later stages of production, a Defra spokesperson said, and therefore traces would be identifiable through checks.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

But like all farmers know, the best way to fatten any animal is to feed it corn and grain — simple carbohydrates.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2023

Adults always want to fatten Alice, even mean adults.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George