gullets

Example Sentences

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After days of agony, success is a room of people glancing at Lizzy’s work while stuffing their gullets with cheese.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

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

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

And if the city is banning supersized soda, some fear that it won’t be long before the government will be forcing broccoli down our gullets.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2012

I fled down alleyways as dark and stifling as the gullets of dragons, through sizzling sparks and palls of smoke, under clotheslines fluttering with singed sheets.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros