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 injuries robbed him of one of the parts of his game that had NFL teams salivating.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2023
• Back For years, avid fans of The Weeknd have salivated for the singer to return to his roots.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2018
• Or salivate over New York cheesecake in our list of the world's best desserts.
  — Marnie Hunter, CNN, 4 Aug. 2021
• The kind coaches dream about, scouts adore and fans salivate over.
  — Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019
• With home wins in back-to-back years, the games to come between the Cougars and Bears are something to salivate over.
  — Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2022
• The world has salivated over the matchup since the draw was made last December.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
• 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
• That left the squad salivating at the rare chance to cause an upset Tuesday.
  — Danielle Lerner, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2018
• Democrats are salivating at the prospect of facing Moore.
  — Matthew Cooper, Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2017
• The suggestion of three rate cuts on the menu in 2024 left Wall Street salivating, with the Dow closing at a record high.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
• The mere mention of them makes my pulse race, starts me salivating, makes my mouth water and drool.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 8 May 2020
• Hollywood has long salivated over the prospect that films, too, would be added to that list.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2018
• The Astros, winners of four of their last six and owners of the best record in the American League, have to be salivating at the chance to play the Tigers.
  — Vito Chirco, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2017
• The bears, with their tongues lolling, seem to be either salivating or panting.
  — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• Here, on the threshold of the growing season, the gardener salivates over the prospect of trying new plants.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
• 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
• In the meantime, go ahead and start salivating at the prospect of Warriors/Thunder, which on paper looks like the best first-round matchup in years.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The early menu should have every fan of seafood salivating.
  — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
• The big-league-caliber velocity that made the pro scouts salivate was gone.
  — Alexa Philippou, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 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
• Just the name makes some people salivate and others sick to their stomaches.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021
• And planetary scientists are salivating over the chance to study rocks from the lunar south pole and the side of the moon that never faces Earth.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 15 July 2019
• Odor, who was 22 at the time, was the young, fiery, up-and-coming slugger Rangers fans were salivating over with the thought of him anchoring the right side of the Texas’ infield.
  — Stefan Stevenson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
• As such, playing for a guy like Freeze is enough to leave a quarterback salivating.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 23 Aug. 2023
• Knox has provided scouts with enough of a preview in each facet of the game to where teams should be salivating over the chance to invest in him in the late lottery.
  — The Crossover Staff, SI.com, 11 June 2018
• Fans are already salivating at the idea of those two showing off their combat moves.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 21 July 2017
• Tukka caught the toy in a frenzy, salivating at the smell of it, chewing it with delirious pleasure.
  — New York Times, 3 July 2018
• One buyer claimed their dog was left trembling and salivating for hours after their owner applied the treatment.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024