munch

Example Sentences

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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

The carnivorous sea stars munch on purple urchins and might even ward them off by making them fearful using chemical cues.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom of animals that munch on them have grown up together, leave their traces even after hundreds and hundreds of millions of years.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

Not too far along I found a pleasant resting place where I could sit and munch and contemplate and stare out over the stately brown, slow-moving Father of Waters as my spirit required.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck