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
A single breeding pair of sunflower stars can potentially produce thousands of offspring — many mouths to chomp down on urchins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
After eating late-night stomach-turning Popeyes in Paris and shedding some tears, we stayed in a trippy '80s-styled hotel, fearful of Parisian bedbugs ready to chomp on our American flesh.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 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
Just as the Nightbeast was about to open its mouth and chomp down, Seven took a chance.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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
Weir, who starred in “Matilda the Musical,” cheerfully chomps into this role, which requires tremendous physicality, blending ballet and brutal brawls, and she’s riveting, but also quite funny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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
The Wolf Pack didn’t just nibble away at Cincinnati’s lead; they took loud, impolite chomps that could wake Emily Post from the grave.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2018
Malik chomps on his mouthguard and pumps his glove at me.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
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
By April, Alligator had chomped into the US Top 10, and the UK Top 40.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
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
The cat wove around our legs as the insect chomped away, a picture of raw savagery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
He chomped off a bit for his sister, then pushed the rest into his mouth.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
“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
Clips of her splashing in her pool or chomping on melons have racked up millions of views all over social media.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
The chaotic recording sessions featured a bucket of fire and musicians chomping vegetables.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
The desert setting and chomping alien monsters give “The Last Dance” a whiff of “Starship Troopers,” a soupçon of “Tremors,” nodding to those self-consciously campy B-movie creature features of yore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
By this time the young governess was chomping at the bit, as is often said about racehorses.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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