gullet
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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
Mobula rays feed by swimming open-mouthed through plankton-rich regions of the ocean and filtering plankton particles into their gullet as water streams into their mouths and out through their gills.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
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
It bolted the log whole, like a frog getting a cricket down into its gullet.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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