fatten

Example Sentences

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Feeders are ranchers who own feedlots where they fatten cattle and sell them to meatpackers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

James Canton spent two years sitting beneath an 800-year-old oak tree near his home in Essex, watching acorns fatten and butterflies land on the massive knurled grey trunk.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2025

They lauded her history, beliefs and wit, such as when she was asked about student testing during a gubernatorial debate and replied, “You don’t fatten a hog by weighing it more often.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2024

The Katmai brown bears are famous for standing at Brooks Falls, catching sockeye salmon in their mouths to fatten up for the winter.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2023

She usually tells me how she’s going to fatten me up.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée