fatten

Example Sentences

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They are sold to feedlots that fatten them up before being shipped to slaughterhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

It’s also possible that retailers, figuring that consumers would expect to pay more for tariffed washing machines and would assume the same effect held for dryers, charged more for the latter to fatten their profits.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

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

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

And I was mindful to do a good job with the marketing for Mrs. Wigginbottom—and leave time to barter biscuits for more newspapers and fatten up that orange tomcat on the back porch.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan