drool
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“He’s just standing there, you know, on all fours, and he’s got drool coming down,” recalled Peter, 69.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He was lethargic, his chest soaked with drool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
“Go find 10 images of bathrooms you just drool over,” West says.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Castles, volcanoes and yurts — oh my — whiz past at a clip that would make a dice-roller drool.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
It felt funny on his tongue and made him drool a bit.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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“He looks like Zipco, he drools like Zipco — this guy smells like Zipco. And he’s talking to the so-called photographer, who is like a bug to him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
It changed the feel of the game as it pertained to one of the most awesome forces ever to hit the sport: the Alabama receiver laboratory, routine supplier of NFL drools and draft choices.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
So for instance, if the baby drools, we’ll take turns riffing, calling her: Drooly Andrews, Drool Carey, Drooliana Margulies, Drool Barrymore, Ja-Drool, Droolius Caesar, etc.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2018
“Look at their Instagram and it’s all oozing cheese and shiny burgers,” she drools.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2017
He drools over me for half a DECADE, but when I deliver myself to his front DOOR, he slams it in my FACE!
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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I coughed over the sink, hardly able to get a breath, until I gagged and drooled into the drain.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2026
If you have drooled over the TV version of Sidney Chambers, the crime-solving English vicar on PBS’ “Grantchester,” you may be surprised by the books they’re based on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2020
She said that she based much of the character’s behavior on a socially awkward officemate she worked with as an accountant at Columbia Pictures, who drooled and stood too close to people when he talked.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2019
Baird in mop-up duty that drooled in with 21.8 seconds left.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
He opened it temptingly and placed a chunk of hamburger inside.The dog whined and drooled as he watched.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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Symptoms of adder bites in dogs include pain and swelling, bruising, lethargy, drooling and vomiting.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
We barely touched the hors d’oeuvres while drooling over the cars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
“I’m drooling all the time because my mouth is not straight,” he said, and shook his head, disappointed.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
After three hellish days in a drooling, Dramamine-induced coma, I failed my check ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
For all she knew, she was drooling as badly as Percy did when he slept.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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