salivating

Example Sentences

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Investors are salivating over the initial public offering of Cerebras Systems.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

Young people constantly pour themselves into digital surveillance systems, giving the managers of those systems a kind of power that would have had 20th-century totalitarians salivating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

Now she is salivating again at the prospect of him becoming leader.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2024

It is easy to call “The Substance” superficial in its depiction of women’s quests for youth and beauty as well as men’s salivating responses to that.

From Salon • Sep. 20, 2024

“We can smell what you’re baking all the way down at our house. We were salivating over our cornflakes.”

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson