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

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

There was much to remember about that time, and much to tell, but the moon in its nightly travels would dwindle, disappear, and fatten again before their stories were entirely told.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart