salivate
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“I don’t even play football,” Taylor said with a laugh after his 9.92, a time that would make any college receivers coach salivate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2025
Two unbeaten champions with differing but equally effective styles produced a match-up of the highest level in a fight to make the boxing purist salivate.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
Nicholson was 6-foot-3, with long legs and an absurd wingspan — the sort of size at cornerback that coaches salivate over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
The brothers Roy bring the offer to the "village elders" who salivate at how golden their parachutes will be.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
He began to salivate and stopped to pass hraka.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Pavlov's dog is the most well-known example of classical conditioning, in which a dog salivates in response to a ringing bell because it has formed an associative memory between the bell and food.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2022
While working class voters turn hopeful about the jobs the comet will provide, an evil tech mogul salivates at all of the rare Earth metals it contains.
From The Verge ● Dec. 7, 2021
The average weekend hack sees those swings—and even that score—and salivates.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 20, 2020
And while Bettman salivates over the untapped hockey market in China, there's no agreement for NHL players to participate in the 2022 Beijing Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2018
Part of me is glad Kim is doing this and my mouth salivates at the thought of the food he will bring back.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
Among a certain set—particularly the one I grew up around in Manhattan—we salivated over whose name might be tarnished next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Some preferred to include it in a stew, while others salivated over the golden-brown fried option.
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
Crowds salivated for the chance to catch him in person and watch him tape “War Room.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
"Harry & Meghan" didn't begin with the focus people expected and salivated at the thought of consuming, but it is precisely the type of documentary series we should have expected from the couple.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2022
One of the smaller girls salivated so heavily the chocolate dribbled syruplike from the comer of her mouth.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Investment bankers might be salivating at the prospects, but ending one problematic combination doesn’t automatically justify, or open the floodgates, for more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Investors are salivating over the initial public offering of Cerebras Systems.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
These candies will have your mouth puckering — and salivating for more.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
"I was sweating, salivating and struggling to concentrate."
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
“We can smell what you’re baking all the way down at our house. We were salivating over our cornflakes.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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