plump
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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
The sun is out, again, and the grapes are plump and plentiful.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The plump mayflies known as green drakes were emerging on the water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
To us, the house salad that got passed around at the beginning of every meal was perfect, save for one ingredient: the plump, black olives.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
Because it was always assumed that we would lead professional lives, my brother and I were free to grow as plump and ugly as we liked.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
Slice and dice the plumper varieties into salads, scones, or onto pavlova; coax them with a little heat and sugar into compote or jam.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022
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
She was wearing her favorite green army uniform, and the belt around her waist made her look even plumper than usual.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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
Under the US system, however, some of the plumpest birds seem to get away with their plumage largely intact.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 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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