fatten

Example Sentences

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He was a skinny teenager told to go to buy milkshakes to "fatten him up".

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

Neither did the temporary suspension of export taxes for grain dealers, which generated dollar inflows but didn’t fatten the bank’s war chest because there was also lots of peso selling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

Wilson’s phalaropes feed and fatten up at Mono Lake before their migration to South America.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

Mountain goats deal with heavy snow, and have a short window of time to fatten up before the thick of winter.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

She usually tells me how she’s going to fatten me up.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée