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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Tukka caught the toy in a frenzy, salivating at the smell of it, chewing it with delirious pleasure.
  — New York Times, 3 July 2018
• The developers would’ve been salivating to get their hands on it.
  — Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2020
• The positive side to this was that each core actor had the sort of showcase episode that should leave voters salivating.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
• The Belgian waffle is served with fried chicken, which had my taste buds salivating.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
• The best way to experience the book is to watch an episode, salivate over what a wide-eyed Rosenthal is eating, then make it yourself.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• But for a skilled menu writer, the name and description of a dish can make diners salivate with excitement.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 13 June 2018
• Meanwhile anti-Trump forces are salivating over the prospect that Michael Cohen could flip.
  — Fox News, 3 July 2018
• Whenever the time is right, a heel world championship run would garner the type of mainstream press WWE salivates over.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024