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[drool] / drul /






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“He’s just standing there, you know, on all fours, and he’s got drool coming down,” recalled Peter, 69.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

When we made it back home after being gone for two weeks, I had to put elbow grease into scrubbing the caked-on dog drool off the side of the car.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026

Half an hour later, I woke up with a little drool seeping from the corner of my mouth.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Castles, volcanoes and yurts — oh my — whiz past at a clip that would make a dice-roller drool.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

For now, I drool over seed catalogs and study up on how to build a fence.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

A dog isn’t a furry, four-legged human that drools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

His unbridled praise for Tom Brady drools across the text.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2022

It changed the feel of the game as it pertained to one of the most awesome forces ever to hit the sport: the Alabama receiver laboratory, routine supplier of NFL drools and draft choices.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022

The one thing Macknin could say for sure based on his data was that “a baby who drools or is fussy for weeks before a tooth eruption is not having symptoms due to teething.”

From Slate ● May 4, 2015

She is beautiful and everything she does is adorable, including the way she drools.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

I coughed over the sink, hardly able to get a breath, until I gagged and drooled into the drain.

From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2026

Yes, my audience giggled dutifully at the jiggling Jell-O salads and drooled over the groovy conversation pits in the Richards’ living room, the only super lair I’d ever live in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

As a full-time racer, there was no way to use him for the main event, even as Fox drooled over his availability following Jeff Gordon’s broadcast retirement at the end of the 2021 season.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

I attended, and yes, I drooled as they passed the bowl of guacamole, the many different types of salsas and all of those beautiful tacos and tostadas directly in front of my hungry face.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2023

She nodded and thanked them, and they prayed and prayed in their singsong voices as I drooled over the food.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

The bottom line: Stop drooling about them and do what they should have been doing all along: Invest in index funds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

It was an already-poorly lamb, which Fiona said had not shown typical symptoms - it had been drooling, dropping food from its mouth and its legs were stiff, but not lame.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

“I’m drooling all the time because my mouth is not straight,” he said, and shook his head, disappointed.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026

He called 911 as his wife was drooling, lying on her side and having trouble breathing, the video showed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

At first, after moving out here, Mattie’s constant chatter and baby Fern’s drooling had got on my nerves.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson


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