Used in a Sentence

drooling

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for drooling.

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By the end of his stint as a consultant, he was making $30,000 a week Upon hearing this, The IRS is drooling all over the place.

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Quick take

Salivation.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of drooling gathered in one view.

noun

Salivation.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for drooling.

noun

Salivation.

Example sentences

1

By the end of his stint as a consultant, he was making $30,000 a week Upon hearing this, The IRS is drooling all over the place.

2

With pain level high enough, it would cripple your remaining days to drooling struggle to function like a human being.

3

Aperture started life as a pretty brilliant program then sat around drooling on its shoes while Lightroom raced past it.

4

Their existence is testament to the existence of drooling rubes in the VC ranks.

5

As someone who is working on an artificial life simulation, I'm drooling at the chance to use this.

6

However, the skeptic in me thinks advertisers must be drooling at that much data.

7

Of the ones that will, most will only give your code a cursory glance just to make sure you're not a drooling imbecile.

8

Sure they have a specific employment contract in place with a batallion of lawyers drooling on their preys, so what does the OP risk?

9

I base this 'assessment' on the fact that not all men are unprofessional, drooling apes.

10

If I was the NSA I would be drooling at this opportunity.

11

I started drooling over the part about writing exploit code that doesn't involve doing anything illegal or taking data that doesn't belong to me.

12

After all, baseball bats have been and continue to be much more easily available than tasers, and still you do not see hordes of drooling-idiot teenagers hitting people for fun on the streets.

Quote examples

1

He allegedly thought it looked "rabid" (it was just ancient, maybe drooling, very, very slow-moving).

2

I guess I'm just disappointed that the "Information Age" became mostly about titillating a mostly passive audience into drooling over screens.

3

You have to assume those "neocons" are drooling idiots to believe any of this "look at the video!1!!" stuff.

4

But it doesn't help to blame managers for this, calling them "drooling, non-technical morons," nor is it even accurate.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use drooling in a sentence?

By the end of his stint as a consultant, he was making $30,000 a week Upon hearing this, The IRS is drooling all over the place.

What does drooling mean?

Salivation.

What part of speech is drooling?

drooling is commonly used as noun.