gobbling

Example Sentences

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The idea that AI is already gobbling up lots of jobs seems believable because it feels like a suspicion confirmed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Microscopic black particles called astrophage are gobbling the energy of every star including the sun.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

During the peak of the pandemic, celebrities as well as lower-profile people of means were gobbling up Hidden Hills homes like hotcakes.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

Mr Clothier explains: "The methanogenic bacteria are gobbling up all the solids and generating loads of lovely methane, which we then catch in the hoods over the top."

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

Karhiders eat four solid meals a day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, along with a lot of adventitious nibbling and gobbling in between.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin