How to Use salivate in a Sentence

salivate

verb
  • The smell alone was enough to make me salivate.
  • She was salivating at the prospect of traveling to Europe.
  • The kind coaches dream about, scouts adore and fans salivate over.
    — Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019
  • Democrats are salivating at the prospect of a gloves-off runoff race.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 18 May 2026
  • Penn State and Iowa will watch the tape and salivate.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • For now, that seems to be enough to make Dallas bagel lovers salivate.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The result has cash flow fans salivating.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Democrats have long salivated at the prospect of turning Texas blue.
    — Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 22 July 2025
  • Still, a summer that has many salivating for what could follow.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 July 2024
  • Or salivate over New York cheesecake in our list of the world's best desserts.
    — Marnie Hunter, CNN, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The bears, with their tongues lolling, seem to be either salivating or panting.
    — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
  • Hollywood has long salivated over the prospect that films, too, would be added to that list.
    — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The crispy chicken dumplings, tuna crispy rice, and wagyu beef are all worth salivating over.
    — Essence, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Swiss bankers may already be salivating.
    — Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025
  • To me, that reads clearly as a response to the sense that more wine drinkers have been primed to salivate at terms like these.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Fans are already salivating at the idea of those two showing off their combat moves.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 21 July 2017
  • That left the squad salivating at the rare chance to cause an upset Tuesday.
    — Danielle Lerner, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2018
  • The combination has led fans to salivate about what Flagg might do next.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The world has salivated over the matchup since the draw was made last December.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
  • Just the name makes some people salivate and others sick to their stomaches.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Henry has to be salivating at the prospect of crashing through lighter boxes with more space to rev up.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Eileen asks a room full of salivating male cohorts, predicting what has since come to pass.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The big-league-caliber velocity that made the pro scouts salivate was gone.
    — Alexa Philippou, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
  • But that isn’t stopping Wall Street from salivating about what comes next.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 29 June 2026
  • Those golf carts, in fact, make a lot of urban-transportation planners salivate.
    — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The developers would’ve been salivating to get their hands on it.
    — Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Dylan is the kind of writer whose work music publishers tend to salivate over.
    — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2020
  • As such, playing for a guy like Freeze is enough to leave a quarterback salivating.
    — Ainslie Lee | [email protected], al, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Then breathing becomes laboured and people start salivating and then foaming at the mouth.
    — Ciara Nugent, Time, 5 July 2018
  • After all, what comic fan wouldn’t salivate at the chance to take on the roles of their favorite superheroes?
    — Michael Thompson, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2018

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