chomp

Some cats love to chomp on power cords.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Australia's oceans are teeming with sharks, with great whites topping the list of species that might fatally chomp a human.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

They can consume up to 11kg of insects a year, and just one can chomp as many as 50 bees a day.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024

What does the bubble gum they chomp during “Too Pooped to Pop” give them?

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

It sounds like a real winner, she wanted to say, but managed to chomp down on her tongue somehow.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Tampopo grows its arugula under insect netting to fight the Northwest flea beetle that otherwise chomps on the leaves.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

“Shut up!” the queen barks at Kate, and proceeds to grill her while a menacing, Cockney-bruiser Philip chomps on a toothpick and plays with the future princess’s hair.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022

Rapping like a cartoon rottweiler, Em chomps his way through the beat in a way that is linguistically dizzying.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2020

Other sections of the movie are screened, and sidelined by a power outage or two, at Hannaford’s party, where he chomps a cigar and showers unending vitriol on various friends, associates and hangers-on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2018

She chomps on bamboo sixteen hours a day, every day.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

At one point father and baby ate grass together, the big grass fronds flickering around their heads as they chomped.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

The “confirming sign” is the roughly eighth-inch holes where the adults have chomped through to emerge and mate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024

The young meat-eater had chomped off the hind legs of two parrot-like dinosaurs called caenagnathids before perishing itself.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 8, 2023

A monkey stole his baton and chomped off the tip.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2023

In one hand was a sesame bun with some bites chomped out of it.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

See what remains today: Santa Anita Park was deemed eligible for the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, though developers have been chomping at the bit to get their hands on it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

He got his start by creating beats for stars including Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, before chomping up the charts in his own right.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

Tom Curtis has gone viral by recording a video of himself chomping on a Whopper and even posting his phone number online.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

“Only one thing missing,” the Burger King president said, wiping at his mouth with his hand after chomping into one of the chain’s Whoppers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

He sits there all content, chomping on it and the rest of his food.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas