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• Will Dorothy have to make a meal of Emma to save her own skin?
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2020
• As in the Stevie Nicks-Tom Petty song, someone’s always about to make a meal of some bright-eyed kid.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2022
• Keaton and Bowen make a meal of their pleasurably silly good cop/bad cop routine.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2022
• Regulars often make a meal of two orders of that alone.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2021
• To make a meal of it, layer on top of chitranna with yogurt raita or plain yogurt and achaar.
  — Chitra Agrawal, Bon Appétit, 16 Aug. 2020
• The open country is prime hunting ground for hawks that wait atop saguaros, ready to make a meal of any reptile, small mammal or bird that shows itself.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2021
• Most of these clips, on my feed, at least, turned out to be ones in which Harris seemed to make a meal of the Vice-President, eying him and grinning like a cat with its corpse.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2020
• When an infected waterbird dies, a raptor may make a meal of it and become infected in the process.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
• Like a gardener’s guardian angel, Texas spiny lizards can spot garden insects from their perches up high and scurry down to make a meal of those pests.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• Portis could initiate more hand-off actions, call his own number, or seek smaller opponents to make a meal of in the post.
  — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• People can make a meal out of the dips and the nutritionally questionable sticks and chips surrounding them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• Could some cicadas have be carrying a disease or parasite that was infecting the birds unlucky enough to make a meal of them?
  — Brianna Barbu, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2021
• Butterflyfish position themselves around a grooved brain coral colony looking to make a meal of the nutrient-rich sperm and egg bundles these colonies release during spawning events.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
• In its traditional form, the patty is made with a shortcrust-style pastry and filled with spiced beef, ackee or other savory ingredients; often, people make a meal of it by stuffing it into a piece of soft and buttery coco bread.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024