Example Sentences

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An EU-funded project has placed Cyprus on the frontline to deal with an invasion of marauding lionfish which have munched their way through the eastern Mediterranean in the past five years.

From Reuters • Jul. 17, 2019

For more than a year, giant rodent invaders with orange-hued teeth have munched through California’s marshland, threatening significant damage to the state’s wetlands and water infrastructure.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2019

Weishampel is trying to correlate tooth design, patterns of tooth wear, the size of the mouth and other aspects of skull mechanics with the types of plants the dinosaurs might have munched.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sammy and Roy would have liked better to have munched their share on the piazza-steps, without plate or napkin.

From Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies by Corning, Mary Spring

Should not Matthew have repented in the sackcloth of solitary confinement, and Aby have munched and crunched between his teeth the bitter ashes of prison bread and water?

From Castle Richmond by Trollope, Anthony