gullet
Example Sentences
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Their gill arch system forms a funnel that is widest at the mouth and narrows toward the gullet.
From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025
That would be the mass equivalent of 370 suns a year disappearing down a cosmic gullet 11 billion years ago at the dawn of time.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024
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
Unlike other birds, the male bittern does not use its voice box but muscles around his windpipe to expand his entire gullet into an echo chamber.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2022
I exploded into the world’s worst coughing fit as the stuff burned a hole in my gullet.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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