salivate

Example Sentences

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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

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

And I haven’t gotten to the secondary market, where sellers are salivating.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was a comment that has left fat cats like the Dodgers and New York Mets salivating at the possibility of reeling in the baseball equivalent of a great white shark before opening day.

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I try not to salivate as fresh steam curls up from the pan.

From Literature