slurp
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You can slurp your way along the Damariscotta at any time of year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
Then she’ll light the cooking fire and we’ll all slurp steamy potato soup around the fire pit.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
North of Zengamina another bitcoin mine slurps up excess energy from a hydro-electric plant run by Virunga National Park in the Congo.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
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
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
It slurps and slithers around in your head in great smeary splodges, like a cornucopia of slugs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
An oversized pink bubble emerges and makes its way toward the glass, then pops loudly and slurps back into her mouth.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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
It traverses ostentatious chilled seafood platters and glass eel pinxtos just before I slurped them down on the street in San Sebastian, Spain.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2024
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
My earliest memories of slurping those warm, squiggly noodles are from sick days spent nestled under the sheets in my childhood bedroom.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Tasting the coffee properly requires slurping it with gusto, hence the music to mask the sounds of dozens of people slurping and spitting.
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
"He was literally slurping unclean pond water to stay hydrated," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
I imagined I could see the trolls in The Eastern Woods, slurping sludge and maybe eating apples.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Vocabulary lists containing slurp
"On the Menu" and "Find the Adaptations"
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