gobble up
Example Sentences
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But I think that people read that as he wants to gobble up every pie he sees.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Power plants that had been slated for closure have been pressed into longer service while new ones come online as tech giants gobble up gigawatts of capacity.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
Predators destroy an estimated 25 million birds, chicks, and eggs a year, while 30 million possums gobble up 21,000 tons of vegetation a night, depleting the food supply for native animals.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025
The toxins accumulate in filter-feeding fish, and then poison larger mammals who gobble up the fish in mass quantities.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
And beneath them, down in the clear water, yard-long catfish lay on the sandy bottom, waiting to gobble up any young birds that happened to fall out of the nests.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
