fatten

Example Sentences

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Instead, the company said, the measure is aimed at tackling a perennial problem in California’s legal system: attorneys pushing car crash victims into expensive surgeries in order to fatten their fees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 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

Mountain goats deal with heavy snow, and have a short window of time to fatten up before the thick of winter.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

Liz Truss told the Institute for Government she tried to rear, fatten and slaughter a pig on market day in her rush to meet voters' need for change saying she had "limited time".

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2023

Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald