drool
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“He’s just standing there, you know, on all fours, and he’s got drool coming down,” recalled Peter, 69.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Half an hour later, I woke up with a little drool seeping from the corner of my mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
They need a sizable guaranteed income, great health care and a comfortable living until they freeze in a blank stare and drool from a podium in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2025
Julie Denzin, who has worked as a restaurant server in Milwaukee for more than a decade, has watched dogs drool, fight, growl and relieve themselves on restaurant patios.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
One’s got a silencer, and the guys damn near drool over it.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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A dog isn’t a furry, four-legged human that drools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“He looks like Zipco, he drools like Zipco — this guy smells like Zipco. And he’s talking to the so-called photographer, who is like a bug to him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
It changed the feel of the game as it pertained to one of the most awesome forces ever to hit the sport: the Alabama receiver laboratory, routine supplier of NFL drools and draft choices.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
So for instance, if the baby drools, we’ll take turns riffing, calling her: Drooly Andrews, Drool Carey, Drooliana Margulies, Drool Barrymore, Ja-Drool, Droolius Caesar, etc.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2018
He drools a bit, but I don’t mind.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
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I coughed over the sink, hardly able to get a breath, until I gagged and drooled into the drain.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2026
Yes, my audience giggled dutifully at the jiggling Jell-O salads and drooled over the groovy conversation pits in the Richards’ living room, the only super lair I’d ever live in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
Her body shook, her teeth chattered, she drooled and she often couldn’t speak.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
There have been some terrific throws on the run by the New York Jets rookie quarterback, the type NFL teams drooled over leading up to the draft.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
She drooled a bit, growled sometimes, and just generally looked less like a cute baby and more like the frightening animal she was meant to be.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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The bottom line: Stop drooling about them and do what they should have been doing all along: Invest in index funds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
I listen now to some commentators drooling over substitutions that change games, and what a genius the manager was to make those changes.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
“I’m drooling all the time because my mouth is not straight,” he said, and shook his head, disappointed.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
After three hellish days in a drooling, Dramamine-induced coma, I failed my check ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Mr. Townsend, the principal, was practically drooling as he spoke.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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