gullets
Example Sentences
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Males and females share the load equally, flying up to 20 miles to stuff their gullets with herring and sand lance to feed their voracious young.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2019
Like a fairy-tale character, you can pass through the darkness of a thousand gullets and be miraculously reconstituted upon egress.
From Slate ● May 5, 2016
The 18-game losing streak stuck in some gullets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2014
The noise had become clamorous and insistent as the mother swallow returned again and again to thrust masticated worms down the chicks’ gullets.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2014
Acorns, beechnuts, and chestnuts; strawberries, huckleberries, and blackberries; wheat, oats, and maize—all went down the pigeons’ iridescently feathered gullets.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
