- present participle of salivate.
salivating
Example Sentences
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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
These candies will have your mouth puckering — and salivating for more.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
With new, deep-pocketed buyers of film and TV projects taking charge of a major studio, sellers are salivating, even as the company’s employees brace for a significant wave of layoffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025
The point of our exercise was to convince ourselves that the wolf was not actually at the back door but perhaps merely salivating at the edge of our yard.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
