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
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
What does the bubble gum they chomp during “Too Pooped to Pop” give them?
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Each year, fans pick their favourite of 12 plump brown bears from Alaska's Katmai National Park that have gathered along the Brooks River to chomp on salmon and pack on as many pounds before winter.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023
“Grace,” he grumbled, and picked up his meat by the bone and took a big chomp, then chewed, mostly with his mouth open.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
Brown widow chomps hurt when they happen, leaving a burning sensation, but lack the “extreme widow envenomation symptoms,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
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
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
In his 2010 autobiography I Am Ozzy the singer says he picked it up, stuffed it in his mouth, and chomped down.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
Sean Lowe, who was attacked last week by his rescue boxer Moose, had to rehome another rescue dog a few years ago after it chomped on one of his children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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
Moose chomped down the bagel, wagging his tail.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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
“We’ve been chomping at the bit to get going,” Wong said, “and these are the funds that accelerate things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
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
If she could catch it while it was still chomping, maybe...They rushed forward, the other trike pulling ahead and lowering its great armored head as it charged.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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