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drooling

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verb

present participle of drool

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for drooling
Verb
  • The sun is spitting out fantastic flares, hurling solar material at Earth and triggering spectacular auroras.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • An Ohio mother is facing criminal charges for allegedly abusing her baby by spitting at her and pouring dish soap down her mouth, authorities said.
    Nicole Acosta, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • After chatting to a voice LLM chatbot like ChatGPT, going back to trying to have a conversational user experience with Alexa (or Siri, or whoever) is frustrating.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Brown suggested allowing for photos and videos to be shared, and adding video-chatting capabilities.
    James Watson, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • For most people, the idea might trigger fears of buildup, bacteria, oily skin, and breakouts.
    Lauryn Higgins, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Dip a salted, buttery or oily crouton in that chocolate fountain instead and thank me later.
    Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And once the sickening jolts of the combat takeoff had ended and Bui slowly grew accustomed to the noise and the pressure of the C-130, the taste of KFC stopped his crying.
    Jennifer Brookland, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • To take but one example, the riots that convulsed swatches of England and Northern Ireland last year were fueled by social media accounts claiming sickening crimes by immigrants, amplified by right-wing accounts.
    David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • That unspoken contract between gore-hungry viewers and the film is mostly forged by Christien Tinsley, the makeup effects artist whose gushy prosthetics are shown off at every turn.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The chatter has only grown in recent days, after Ms. Anderson — who just celebrated a birthday — posted a story on her Instagram account, showing a lavish bouquet of flowers and a gushy card from an admirer.
    Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Before, nutrients in the water created an algal slick that kept water from seeping into the ground and watering the trees.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Furthermore, exhibiting accuracy, the robot mimics human-like care by watering a plant delicately and dancing to lively music.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • When Rudd, 55, appeared on Fallon's late night show to promote his new A24 movie Death of a Unicorn on Thursday, March 27, Fallon, 50, noted that Rudd has performed in just about every genre of film, television and theater one could imagine — except for the soapiest of soap operas.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • There is just cause for the soapier parts: Manet was married, and Morisot wed his brother.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.
    David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
  • At any moment, the noodles might dissolve, the cheese topping burn, the dish collapse into a soggy, oleaginous mess.
    Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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“Drooling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drooling. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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