gullet
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Instead of slamming directly into a flat barrier, particles move along the surface and are guided onward toward the gullet.
From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025
Oesophageal cancer is a cancer that's found anywhere in the oesophagus, sometimes called the gullet or food pipe, which connects your mouth to your stomach.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023
Moshfegh, in her fourth novel, thrives in the mire, a happy little worm sliding dirt down her gullet.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2022
There’s even an Easter egg homage to a scene in the 1962 original, in which Kong jams a tree trunk down Godzilla’s gullet.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2021
When he felt it was safe, the dragon tore at the sheep’s flesh with his teeth, leaning his head back and coaxing the meat down his gullet.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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