fattening

Example Sentences

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He would hold them for around three months, for the intermediate stage in their lives called backgrounding, because the animals build up health and immunity before being sold again to feedlots for final fattening.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Monday’s game offered yet another example of how the team that supposedly is ruining baseball is fattening the wallets of the league’s other 29 teams.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

He likens the effect of these chemicals on water-born bacteria to offering hungry humans a roomful of fattening fast food.

From BBC • May 10, 2025

Typically, once calves reach six or eight months, they are weaned and sent to larger, industrial pastures to roam in vast herds, fattening on grass, though this pastoral interlude is a short one.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024

There were plates of scones, cookies, and muffins, fresh butter and jam—all of which, Annabeth figured, were incredibly fattening; unless, of course, you were the immortal goddess of love.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan