slurp
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The waiter explained how to eat them — pinch the top, slurp carefully — which is perfect for first-timers.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 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
The fish can withstand extreme temperature and salinity changes, and can even slurp air from the water surface if the conditions force them to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 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
She passed the offending erster to Eevie, who leaned down to slurp it up and then gasped.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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
Charlie slurps the milk like it’s the best thing ever, and that makes me smile.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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
This drives the mass into the black hole at an even faster rate, strengthening the gravitational pull as the gas is continuously slurped into the black hole's center.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 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
She humphed and hemmed and slurped her coffee without answering, but as soon as I’d gotten my book again and was settled down on the couch and reading, she said, “It’s onto four o’clock.”
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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
Armed with spoons, they test the samples in a rapid-fire process of slurping and spitting into metal sinks they call “spittoons.”
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
And gradually, it all became natural: light steps, small stitches, quiet voice, ramrod-straight back, deep curtsies without creaking knees, no yawns, soup tilted away from me, and no slurping.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Vocabulary lists containing slurp
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