Example Sentences

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"So although it might be food very near to them and they might be drooling, they actually can't pounce on to them."

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

After three hellish days in a drooling, Dramamine-induced coma, I failed my check ride.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

“Our ladies are freaking drooling over him,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

Lumbergh, in his two-toned buttoned-down shirt and with his ever-present coffee mug, drooling a series of “mmmkays” and “yeeeahs,” is every middle manager masking their incompetence while lording their authority over deflated subordinates.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2024

“What about Trist—” “Too busy drooling at his fiancée.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir