slurp

The waiter explained how to eat them — pinch the top, slurp carefully — which is perfect for first-timers.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025

They can even slurp air from the water surface if conditions force them to.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

The King pulled his pint before Mr Mills asked him if he was "going to have a slurp of that".

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025

Like our babies, maggots can’t chew, so they vomit digestive enzymes onto the wound, dissolving the now-loosened tissue into a tasty slurry, which they can slurp up.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2024

Right now I was coming to the bottom of my soda and I was trying to slurp up the last drops when my mother told me to quit; I was making too much noise.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

Plants are green because such wavelengths of light help it keep a consistent vacuum on the electromagnetic energy it slurps from the sun.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024

Brian Robb, the overnight race leader, slurps his way through 57 yoghurt tubes, the sort more commonly seen in a child’s lunchbox.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

Seated on plastic chairs next to a street food stand tucked in an alleyway, the 47-year-old Haitian slurps orange-colored soup out of a metal bowl next to his 9-year-old son.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2023

She slurps the coffee, scratches Fionna’s head with electric blue nails and flashes a smile that’s disproportionately large between slim patches of visible cheeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

She slurps down the Coke, crushes the cup.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Entire cities have looked on with awe as foreign fans have swooped in and slurped up the supply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Soup Drops “will have soup fans feeling like they just slurped a spoonful of Progresso’s iconic Chicken Noodle Soup that they know and love,” the brand explained.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025

The two expressed that they were impressed, as they slurped from tasting cups with excitement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

Latex floating on the top of the remaining liquid is slurped up with a pipette and rinsed up to three times for purification, and then dried.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024

I dropped the spoon I’d been given and slurped straight from a wooden bowl, my table manners a distant memory as greasy, delicious broth dribbled down my chin.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

By sniffing beans and slurping coffee, these elite graders help keep the commodities market running: Their ratings help set U.S. futures-market prices for arabica.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

He stays gruff, of course, but you sense that Ray is as manacled by his authoritarian role as Colin literally is in his hungry, slurping devotion to his master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

I had to look as though I was enjoying watching Father Christmas giving gifts to the children of some of the players and the wife of one of the staff slurping back oysters.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

While slurping, the insect excretes a substance that weakens the tree's defenses and causes damage that impedes the flow of nutrients between root and crown, he said.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024

But I get in as close to the rock as I dare, with the sea slurping over the top and the seaweed floating like a woman’s hair, and I pull up the first trap.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick