How to Use fatten in a Sentence

fatten

verb

• Those who struggle to fatten their birds have their pay docked.
  — Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 20 Jan. 2025
• Too much filler fattening up this episode, and too little meat on the bone.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• The process fattens the duck's liver, which is the basis for the dish.
  — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 9 Dec. 2025
• They were given a stew in the same way that sumo wrestlers are given stews to fatten them up.
  — Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2024
• In order to fatten up, brown bears can eat up to 90 pounds of food each day!
  — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2021
• Elsewhere the crooks steal baby chicks but fatten them up before killing them.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• She’s made an effort this year to fatten up those birds in case people might prefer them.
  — Lindsay Campbell, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2020
• Try not to say something is bad for them, fattening, or unhealthy.
  — Sally Kuzemchak, Parents, 7 Mar. 2026
• There was laying meal, feed grain, and the mash for fattening the chickens.
  — Longreads, 22 May 2017
• But then the water drops, and the streamside grass thickens calves and fattens fawns.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2020
• The Rockets this next week will look to fatten up their record against two of the worst teams in the league.
  — Rahat Huq, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023
• Livestock fattens on grass from pasture and the maize‑filled troughs of feedlots.
  — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
• They were isolated from their friends and family and asked to fatten up.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2016
• Ford notes, standing beside a tank where a couple of dozen of them are fattening up on kelp.
  — Degen Pener, Los Angeles Magazine, 22 June 2018
• More eager cadets on the streets aren’t going fatten the bone-thin squads that have been starved of resources for years.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 27 Oct. 2019
• The first of the asparagus come in slender, fattening week by week.
  — Sunset Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
• The good news is that barbecue season doesn't have to be fattening.
  — Fred Sassani, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
• As the bundles have fattened, so too have the prices, Sappington said.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2018
• The con is called pig butchering — so named because victims are likened to hogs, fattened up for slaughter.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2024
• This was a game that Washington was counting on to fatten up in the standings.
  — Michael Wagaman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• Coffee shops on nearly every corner now offer dozens of ways to spice and fatten up your drink of choice.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
• Rather than fattening up for the long winter, these 25 rodent species cache treats in their bulging cheeks.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2019
• That might not have been enough to fatten her real estate portfolio in Kenya.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 27 Sep. 2025
• The scammer’s victim is the pig, slowly fattened for slaughter.
  — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
• Six months after the blooms appear, clusters of seedy berries invite birds to fatten up for winter.
  — Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
• The top reason is that it's processed, and the second reason is that it's packed with fattening cheese.
  — Megan Friedman, ELLE Decor, 21 Nov. 2016
• When fear drove people to empty store shelves and fatten their larders, that meant there was less available to make its way to the homeless.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020
• Why not fatten the old-fashioned Rolodex so there's a bigger talent pool from which to draw year after year?
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 20 Aug. 2017
• The rehab facility fattened the owl up with a diet of bugs and small rodents.
  — Andrea Sachs, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
• These animals need to fatten themselves up to survive the winter.
  — Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2025