munch

Example Sentences

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According to Barton, when deer munch on native plants, the plants are replaced by invasive grasses that dry out quickly and burn easily.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

Some visitors at Ueno Zoological Gardens were left teary-eyed as they watched Japan's only two pandas Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao munch on bamboo.

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

The diggers, up to 62-feet high, are miniature factories that can munch their way through the toughest of rocks while laying pipes, cables and cladding as they go.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Whether we will see UK councils start shipping in millions of flies, so their larvae can munch through the 6.4 million tonnes of household food waste produced here yearly, is only a matter of time.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025

“Course, it wasn’t only crops they got. I left my good jacket hanging on the fence post. Danged if those hoppers didn’t munch their way through that, too.”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson