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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 infected ones have regressed further still and they’ve split into two sub-species: the grub-like “slow-low” zombies, who suck up worms with a vile slurp, and the Neanderthalish sprinters who hunt in packs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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

There’s a very loud slurp as Malcolm reaches the end of his cup.

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

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

Manchee laps up his share and you can hear us all taking in great raking breaths between slurps.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

They slurped the cafe’s signature lavashak smoothie — a tart mixture including peaches, various berries and pomegranate molasses — and munched on slow-cooked lamb over nachos with melty Armenian string cheese.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Men and women from their 20s to their 70s slurped hakka noodles and sipped pinot grigio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

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

He slurped his tea and didn’t ask more; Rahim Khan had always been one of the most instinctive people I’d ever met.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

For the 23-year-old Christmas can be a particularly difficult time as the sounds of other people, chewing, slurping and sniffling make her feel extremely uncomfortable.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

Khalid was slurping his bowl of Lucky Charms, and when I asked, he frowned at me and wanted to know how I knew about Old Man Martin’s shack.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender