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

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

As in every country where McDonald’s opens restaurants, the chain didn’t just shove its Western offerings down Russia’s gullet.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022

He sounded as if he were trying to clear something really big out of his gullet.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata