fatten

Example Sentences

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"I am thinking of setting up a new unit with my son for fattening calves," he says.

From BBC

Mr. Putin, in meeting with Mr. Xi, will likely prioritize asking for help replenishing stocks of military-grade components and increasing exports to China to fatten the Kremlin’s war chest.

From New York Times

Corn is a part of modern life in all sorts of ways: It fattens up livestock and gets turned into biofuels.

From Los Angeles Times

The calves are weaned, sold in the fall, fattened, then slaughtered, while the farmers store their harvested crops and bales of hay as supplemental feed for mother cows in the winter months.

From New York Times

That’s money that could be used for a host of goals other than fattening the budgets of healthcare companies: funding universal coverage, reinvigorating the nation’s tattered public health infrastructure, you name it.

From Los Angeles Times