slurp
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“When they are ready, I like to think of them as mini-fiber-bobas when I slurp them through a straw,” Rajendran says.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
The fish can withstand extreme temperature and salinity changes, and can even slurp air from the water surface if the conditions force them to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
Like our babies, maggots can’t chew, so they vomit digestive enzymes onto the wound, dissolving the now-loosened tissue into a tasty slurry, which they can slurp up.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2024
Most lunch breaks, he drives 20 to 30 minutes to more-established parts of Shenzhen to slurp beef noodles in family-owned restaurants before racing back to work.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2023
There wasn’t even a fork clink or a milk slurp.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Plants are green because such wavelengths of light help it keep a consistent vacuum on the electromagnetic energy it slurps from the sun.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
Brian Robb, the overnight race leader, slurps his way through 57 yoghurt tubes, the sort more commonly seen in a child’s lunchbox.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
Seated on plastic chairs next to a street food stand tucked in an alleyway, the 47-year-old Haitian slurps orange-colored soup out of a metal bowl next to his 9-year-old son.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
She slurps the coffee, scratches Fionna’s head with electric blue nails and flashes a smile that’s disproportionately large between slim patches of visible cheeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
I want to be here, on Tuesday, in May, sitting in the red- topped booth at Sunnysides, watching Cordelia as she delicately slurps the last of her milkshake up through the straws.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Entire cities have looked on with awe as foreign fans have swooped in and slurped up the supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Soup Drops “will have soup fans feeling like they just slurped a spoonful of Progresso’s iconic Chicken Noodle Soup that they know and love,” the brand explained.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
The two expressed that they were impressed, as they slurped from tasting cups with excitement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Latex floating on the top of the remaining liquid is slurped up with a pipette and rinsed up to three times for purification, and then dried.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024
Then he relented and cut off a bit for Wolf, who slurped it up.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
By sniffing beans and slurping coffee, these elite graders help keep the commodities market running: Their ratings help set U.S. futures-market prices for arabica.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
He stays gruff, of course, but you sense that Ray is as manacled by his authoritarian role as Colin literally is in his hungry, slurping devotion to his master.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
Other children grin as they immediately sit on the ground and start slurping on the spaghetti, eating it with their hands.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
While slurping, the insect excretes a substance that weakens the tree's defenses and causes damage that impedes the flow of nutrients between root and crown, he said.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024
I hear the cracking of eggshell and loud slurping.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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