salivate
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“I don’t even play football,” Taylor said with a laugh after his 9.92, a time that would make any college receivers coach salivate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2025
“I’m probably the one person who didn’t salivate over the arrival of ‘There’s a Riot Goin’ on,’” he says, referencing the 1971 bummer classic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
Two unbeaten champions with differing but equally effective styles produced a match-up of the highest level in a fight to make the boxing purist salivate.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
A matchup with Rome Odunze will make NFL talent evaluators salivate.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
I love sweet and sour chicken—it normally makes me salivate like a Saint Bernard—but I’m not hungry anymore.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
Pavlov's dog is the most well-known example of classical conditioning, in which a dog salivates in response to a ringing bell because it has formed an associative memory between the bell and food.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2022
While working class voters turn hopeful about the jobs the comet will provide, an evil tech mogul salivates at all of the rare Earth metals it contains.
From The Verge ● Dec. 7, 2021
The average weekend hack sees those swings—and even that score—and salivates.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 20, 2020
And while Bettman salivates over the untapped hockey market in China, there's no agreement for NHL players to participate in the 2022 Beijing Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2018
I cannot see into the pot and my mouth salivates at the smell of the rice and fish.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
Among a certain set—particularly the one I grew up around in Manhattan—we salivated over whose name might be tarnished next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Some preferred to include it in a stew, while others salivated over the golden-brown fried option.
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
Crowds salivated for the chance to catch him in person and watch him tape “War Room.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
"Harry & Meghan" didn't begin with the focus people expected and salivated at the thought of consuming, but it is precisely the type of documentary series we should have expected from the couple.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2022
One of the smaller girls salivated so heavily the chocolate dribbled syruplike from the comer of her mouth.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Investors are salivating over the initial public offering of Cerebras Systems.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
“Nebraska ’82,” the 37-track collection, clears the vaults for fans who have been salivating to hear the fabled “electric” recordings with the E Street Band.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025
The 90% adoption stat is one that might have many IT leaders salivating, although, for Serhant, “It is, I think, the least sexy thing we do here.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
"I was sweating, salivating and struggling to concentrate."
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
I didn’t even know what was in the bag, but I began salivating.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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