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

Soybean Export Council, a trade group, opened a Beijing office in 1982 to spread the word about protein-packed U.S. soybeans used to fatten livestock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

He was a skinny teenager told to go to buy milkshakes to "fatten him up".

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

The Katmai brown bears are famous for standing at Brooks Falls, catching sockeye salmon in their mouths to fatten up for the winter.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2023

If you fatten up the subject by stuffing some words at the end, as in the diagram below, so that bridge no longer comes right before the verb, then agreement—defined over the tree—is unaffected.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker