fatten
Example Sentences
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Neither did the temporary suspension of export taxes for grain dealers, which generated dollar inflows but didn’t fatten the bank’s war chest because there was also lots of peso selling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 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 Seahawks need to fatten up before staring down this quartet of stiff challenges: 49ers, Cowboys, 49ers, Eagles.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2023
She usually tells me how she’s going to fatten me up.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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