Example Sentences
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Finally, with the infrastructure in place and the new money flowing, the Dodgers then opened their fatted wallet for the players that created the championship.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024
You were the good and prudent child, and now you’re glumly getting ready for the fatted calf to be slaughtered for your useless brother.
From Slate • Feb. 22, 2019
He tried this flop shot from there and kind of fatted it and came up short.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 4, 2017
After expending hundreds of angry words, he noted that he is one of 32 terrifically rich owners and everyone loves a fatted calf.
From New York Times • May 6, 2015
‘And we’ll kill the fatted calf—you long-lost whatever-you-are. Come an hour after candles are lit. Prodigal Son, what? Got a cup, has he?’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
