How to Use fatten in a Sentence

fatten

verb

• After fattening up in the warmer seasons, groundhogs spend nearly three months – or 150 days – hibernating without eating a single thing.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
• The swollen veins on her hands were fattened gray worms.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• 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
• In order to fatten up, brown bears can eat up to 90 pounds of food each day!
  — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2021
• There was more than enough to go around: Peasants fed it to their pigs to fatten them up.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• The green-hued parrots, in flocks of about 15 birds, flit from tree to tree to find a good spot to fatten up for the winter.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
• But then the water drops, and the streamside grass thickens calves and fattens fawns.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2020
• There was laying meal, feed grain, and the mash for fattening the chickens.
  — Longreads, 22 May 2017
• Floyd will pad his 50-0 record and fatten his bank account.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2019
• The more opportunities abound to fatten the bank account, the greater the allure to play around the world.
  — Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2023
• As the bundles have fattened, so too have the prices, Sappington said.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 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
• Now that the new Dutch Slough marsh is open to the creek, young salmon can stop there, rest and fatten up, giving them more chance to survive the journey.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2021
• This was a game that Washington was counting on to fatten up in the standings.
  — Michael Wagaman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• The gourmand Count Musin-Pushkin fattened his calves with cream and kept them in cradles like newborns.
  — Alex Halberstadt, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2015
• The gourmand Count Musin-Pushkin fattened his calves with cream and kept them in cradles like newborns.
  — Alex Halberstadt, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2015
• The first of the asparagus come in slender, fattening week by week.
  — Sunset Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
• The livestock were shipped in from all over the West and Midwest to be fattened up and then (surprise, fellas!) slaughtered and packed.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Mild valve timing was selected to fatten the torque curve.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Elsewhere the crooks steal baby chicks but fatten them up before killing them.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• As for the cows, there was a time not so long ago when an islander might round one up from the beach, take it home to graze and fatten up, then butcher it for meat.
  — Longreads, 2 Nov. 2022
• Oh, and higher rates fatten the pockets of banks and the rest of the financial sector—which makes up the biggest chunk of value stocks.
  — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• That survival mode in pike and muskie has them zeroed in on baitfish, trying to fatten up for the winter.
  — Ben Duchesney, Outdoor Life, 27 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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 big oil exporters could sit back, perhaps even increasing their own output, as oil prices rose and their pockets were fattened.
  — Michael Levi, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024