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“I don’t even play football,” Taylor said with a laugh after his 9.92, a time that would make any college receivers coach salivate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2025

Two unbeaten champions with differing but equally effective styles produced a match-up of the highest level in a fight to make the boxing purist salivate.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024

Nicholson was 6-foot-3, with long legs and an absurd wingspan — the sort of size at cornerback that coaches salivate over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

Sportsbooks salivate at the thought of gaining access to California’s 39 million residents, but the industry’s efforts thus far have failed.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

One salivates to know whether Woolf ever wrote back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

Pavlov's dog is the most well-known example of classical conditioning, in which a dog salivates in response to a ringing bell because it has formed an associative memory between the bell and food.

From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2022

While working class voters turn hopeful about the jobs the comet will provide, an evil tech mogul salivates at all of the rare Earth metals it contains.

From The Verge ● Dec. 7, 2021

He admits feeling lonely at times and can’t wait for in-person visits, just as he salivates thinking about going out for a meal at a Greek restaurant or a favorite steakhouse.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2020

I cannot see into the pot and my mouth salivates at the smell of the rice and fish.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Among a certain set—particularly the one I grew up around in Manhattan—we salivated over whose name might be tarnished next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Some preferred to include it in a stew, while others salivated over the golden-brown fried option.

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

Crowds salivated for the chance to catch him in person and watch him tape “War Room.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

"Harry & Meghan" didn't begin with the focus people expected and salivated at the thought of consuming, but it is precisely the type of documentary series we should have expected from the couple.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2022

One of the smaller girls salivated so heavily the chocolate dribbled syruplike from the comer of her mouth.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Investors are salivating over the initial public offering of Cerebras Systems.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

Young people constantly pour themselves into digital surveillance systems, giving the managers of those systems a kind of power that would have had 20th-century totalitarians salivating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

“Nebraska ’82,” the 37-track collection, clears the vaults for fans who have been salivating to hear the fabled “electric” recordings with the E Street Band.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

"I was sweating, salivating and struggling to concentrate."

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025

“We can smell what you’re baking all the way down at our house. We were salivating over our cornflakes.”

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson