fatten
Example Sentences
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"I am thinking of setting up a new unit with my son for fattening calves," he says.
From BBC
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.
Wilson’s phalaropes feed and fatten up at Mono Lake before their migration to South America.
From Los Angeles Times
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
That isn’t enough to sway the gladiatorial majority, which is mostly made up of men grinning at the fattening piggy bank suspended above them.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
