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How to use fatten in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb

Fatten means to cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter. Example: “We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.”

Examples of fatten by meaning

verbTo cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.

  • We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
  • In that classroom full of oily potato-chip-fattened adolescents, she was everyone’s ideal of translucent perfume-advertisement femininity.1969, Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, published 2010, Part 1, Chapter 4

verbTo become fat or fatter.

  • He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
  • Mushrooms fatten in the warm September rain.1955, J. P. Donleavy, chapter 6, in The Ginger Man, New York: Dell, published 1965, page 43

verbTo make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money).

  • The news spread, about the bastard caterer who was toying with their religious sentiments, trampling on their beliefs, polluting their beings, all for the sake of fattening his miserable wallet.1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, London: Faber & Faber, published 1997, Part 5, p. 241

verbTo become thick or thicker.

  • The pencil-line of light by his feet fattened to a bar.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

verbTo make (soil) fertile and fruitful.

  • to fatten land

More sentences with fatten

  • My cat looks underweight, so I'll fatten him up with higher-calorie cat food.From the entry fatten up
  • I visited my mother for a month, and she managed to fatten me up 20 pounds.From the entry fatten up
  • Chicken pills are used to fatten poultry and sold in animal feed stores for two US dollars a dozen.2022, Matthias Drawe, The World is My Oyster (Volume 1: Around the World in 30 Stories). From the entry chicken pill
  • Boy, you gotta lose weight, else we'll fatten you up.2021, “DRIP_DROP_DRIP.wav”, performed by RJLDiablo. From the entry pattern up
  • Thousands now use this easy, quick method to flavorize, fatten and increase the body weight in all fowl.1950 April, “Advertisment”, in Poultry Tribune, page 42. From the entry flavorize
  • The list is completed by the affri or draught-horses with their foals, and the capons, geese, and peacocks that were fattened for the lord's table.2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget

Meaning of fatten

  1. verb To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
  2. verb To become fat or fatter.
  3. verb To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money).

Full definition of fatten

Questions about fatten in a sentence

How do you use fatten in a sentence?
Fatten is used as a verb. For example: “We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.”
What is a short sentence with fatten?
“to fatten land”
What does fatten mean?
Fatten means to cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.

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