fattening
Example Sentences
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The Victorian glasshouses nurture fattening peaches, while in the main garden beyond, a tower of water bursts up into the sky—the highest powered fountain in England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Monday’s game offered yet another example of how the team that supposedly is ruining baseball is fattening the wallets of the league’s other 29 teams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
Every time the political world thinks his career has ended, he manages to rise again, rebuilding his audience and fattening his bank accounts.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
Somehow, Piaget has squeezed those into the new watch’s 41.5-millimeter blue cobalt alloy case without fattening it up.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
Alternatively, hunters may have caught and ‘adopted’ a lamb, fattening it during the months of plenty and slaughtering it in the leaner season.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
