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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

He was lethargic, his chest soaked with drool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

Julie Denzin, who has worked as a restaurant server in Milwaukee for more than a decade, has watched dogs drool, fight, growl and relieve themselves on restaurant patios.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023

Sweetie Pie stroked Winn-Dixie’s head so long and serious that his eyes drooped half closed and drool came out of the side of his mouth.

From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“He looks like Zipco, he drools like Zipco — this guy smells like Zipco. And he’s talking to the so-called photographer, who is like a bug to him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

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

Jin, 46, has cerebral palsy and frequently drools.

From Slate ● May 18, 2021

One side of her mouth swallows the rice gruel while the other side drools and spits the food back out.

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

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

Her body shook, her teeth chattered, she drooled and she often couldn’t speak.

From New York Times ● May 17, 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

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

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026

"Swollen face, a fever, lameness, drooling and crusting of the nostrils - if you do come across any of those clinical signs ring the department immediately and we will investigate."

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025

After three hellish days in a drooling, Dramamine-induced coma, I failed my check ride.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Aretha was drooling, and Robin’s chin was gooey with syrup.

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate


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