plump
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They tend to be little, plump, tucked in, braided or rolled up; they have the proportions of toys.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
The filler look——characterized by overly plump lips and pillowy cheeks——is losing appeal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
There, crawling on eight legs across the white sheets toward us, sporting a single dot on its back, was a deep-red, plump tick.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Perhaps unspurprisingly, splitting a bill equally tends to encourage people to order more, or plump for the caviar and lobster, boosting the overall final bill for everyone.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
He looked as though he’d just been about to hibernate, his body plump with food storage, and the chair groaned nervously beneath him.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
But Curtis hurls herself into this schtick with gusto — say, demanding a ring light and lip plumper for her passport photo — and gets you laughing anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
Over the past half-century, as breeders selected for larger ears with more numerous and plumper, heavier kernels, they ended up choosing big plants with many leaves for photosynthesis and tall stalks.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2023
Probably an orange/lemon hybrid, Meyer lemons have a lot less of an acid base than ordinary lemons, and they tend to look a little plumper.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2023
She was a plumper girl and had some setbacks and she saw how our band works, it made her brighten up and more confident.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2021
Octavia comes up and pats Venia’s back soothingly, her curvy body looking plumper than usual next to Venia’s thin, angular, one.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Fat bear week starts today, that glorious autumn tradition when anyone with an internet connection can vote for the plumpest brown bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022
To guarantee the first, seek out local peaches, which have been tree-ripened — they've spent more time growing to their fullest, plumpest size and are harvested just before being brought to market.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2021
After selling the guano to farmers to be used as fertilizer, he took a few of the plumpest bats to restaurants he had been personally supplying for years.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
The oysters in the Hudson River around the Statue of Liberty are some of the plumpest and fastest growing Crassostrea virginica in the whole of New York harbor.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2016
When the platter of steaming crabs was passed around, Waverly was first and she picked the best crab, the brightest, the plumpest, and put it on her daughter’s plate.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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