gullet
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Since the flare from J2245+3743 is still visible, astronomers believe the black hole is in mid-meal, "like a fish only halfway down the whale's gullet," Graham says.
From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025
As this pink delicacy was halfway down my gullet, you screamed out, “Tidbit, that’s the prop! We still need to shoot a closeup from another angle.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025
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
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
If I got this wrong, it wasn't just a one-star review on Yelp; it was a fast trip down Nergal's feather-lined gullet.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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