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
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
Using prompts and magic tricks and graceful physical comedy, he makes an enormous amount of food appear and then disappear, seemingly down his own gullet, as in the Monty Python skit.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022
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
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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