gullet

Example Sentences

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Instead of slamming directly into a flat barrier, particles move along the surface and are guided onward 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

Visitors slid down the pole in “The Fire Cat,” slithered into the gullet of the boa constrictor in “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and lounged in a faux bubble bath in “Harry the Dirty Dog.”

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 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

A fellow had to get it down his gullet quickly before it began to solidify, or he would gag on it.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown