gulp
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A.I. writing is now in my water supply, whether I can identify each new gulp or not.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
It had somehow learned to peel off the bottles’ lids and gulp the cream down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Again, it's not just the losses that might be making some Celtic fans gulp.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
These were all shows whose writers knew how to keep viewers on the hook by giving them small tastes of the biggest secrets, with the occasional gulp of a major reveal.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025
“Can you really tell a person’s intentions just by looking at them?” asks a red-faced boy with a gulp.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
As we open the gate, Matt visibly gulps.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
They took gulps of water simultaneously, as the moderators began.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024
“Often they feed by diving to the bottom and sifting big gulps of sediment through their baleen, consuming the amphipods in great numbers,” Milstein said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
The pair had survived by rationing bodybuilding supplements, drinking their own urine and swallowing gulps of air, they said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
He asked her, too, to stop bringing foul-smelling concoctions for Arize to drink in bitter gulps.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Trout, their speckled flanks gleaming in the sun, gulped them down one by one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
“The money question remains as to how many barrels vacated by India will be gulped up by the Chinese teapots,” Raj said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
When concert halls around the country shuttered their doors and gulped with anxiety about the pandemic future — this was March 2020, not that anyone has forgotten — Martha Gilmer saw an opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024
And when a Labrador retriever owned by another company officer gulped down a bagel impaled with a toothpick, he said, most of the resulting $10,5000 surgical bill was covered as well.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
I gulped, trying to quell the panic in my chest.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
Nearby, crowds huddled in thin strips of shade outside pavilions, gulping free bottles of water that workers were distributing throughout the event.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Yes, gulping the liquid the night before was an ordeal — try drinking three liters of anything in three hours, going to sleep, then waking up six hours later for one final liter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
Herrera, gulping back tears, said he was a friend of her son.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
The sensation is extremely unnatural and unpleasant, but I prefer sleeping with that discomfort over being so tired that I have to squeeze naps into my day like a dehydrated man gulping water.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2023
They all looked uncomfortably at Constance, who had finished gulping her ice cream and let her sticky chin drop to her chest.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
