chomp
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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
If the girl was able to chomp down on her desired apple on the first try, that signified that she was destined to be with her sweetheart.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 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
If you haven’t chomped on Chicken McNuggets while Al Pacino chomps on the scenery, you haven’t lived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
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
He chomps on his sad excuse for a pastry.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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
A ragtag group of adventurers land on a remote island planning to exploit dinosaur DNA — and some of them get chomped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
As the herd chomped through their rations, another military truck carrying visitors “ooh’d” and “ahh’d” while they circled the animals.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 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
And she chomped her teeth, even though Miss Trotter did no such thing.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
The chaotic recording sessions featured a bucket of fire and musicians chomping vegetables.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
“I’ve been chomping at the bit to get the opportunity to be able to lead and show who I am as a player on a different scale,” Plum said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
There is, of course, some suspicious, terrifying revelation promised that will surely result in lots of screaming and chomping.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2025
She’d been chomping on hers ever since we started to climb the mountain on this curving stretch of road.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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