How to Use gullet in a Sentence

gullet

noun
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  • The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.
    — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The gray gullet of the sky seems to have swallowed a molten coin.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Placed at the very back of the throat near the gullet, the small teeth grind the plankton just before the food goes down.
    — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2012
  • And if that doesn’t do it, try the wine cellar for a gullet of the other good stuff.
    — Jordan Riefe, Orange County Register, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The deep gullets at the base of its teeth keep the blade running cool, and this helps prevent burn marks on the lumber.
    — Richard Romanski, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2020
  • That piece of bagel that gets stuck halfway down your gullet.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Some had deformed wings, useless, and for others, that was all that was left of them — a wing, the rest in the gullet of a bird.
    — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
  • The gullet’s width plays a significant role in how the saddle fits the horse.
    — Jennifer Blair, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Glouglou: French slang for light red wine that is so chuggable it glou-glou-glous all the way down your gullet.
    — Belle Cushing, Bon Appetit, 28 Aug. 2017
  • There’s something comforting in seeing sparks light up the gullet of the earth.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
  • The burger empathizes with both your wallet and your gullet.
    — Oset Babur, GQ, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Packard was in real danger, Mayo said, if not from the whale's gullet, then from the air pressure in his own lungs as the whale surfaced to spit him out.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 11 June 2021
  • No one wearing a mask has ever had a June bug blunder down their gullet while talking.
    — Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
  • Moshfegh, in her fourth novel, thrives in the mire, a happy little worm sliding dirt down her gullet.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • Oil was no longer just the lubricant easing a bite of steak down your gullet, nor merely a boiling cesspool from which French fries and doughnuts emerged.
    — Ted Trautman, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • At Bird’s, those diners can feel safe knowing the oysters only took a short ride before reaching their gullets.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • There are twists and turns going thisaway and thataway and a series of drains that prevent water from dripping down the 6.4's gullet.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 28 May 2021
  • The eponymous maw of the largemouth bass — and the fish’s ability to suck prey into that gaping gullet in a rapacious strike — are part of the lore and legend of the bass to the many anglers who pursue it.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2017
  • With each turn of a card, the next act is revealed, and in a flash the world can end, devoured in the misshapen gullet of an entity beyond mortal comprehension.
    — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
  • Today, the digestive metaphor should be reversed: New York is a gullet in distress, vomiting its tonnage into the world.
    — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
  • An Atlantic puffin has just landed, its beak overflowing with enough fish to fill a pelican’s gullet.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Lead Wildlife Technician Ashley Damm, while using tweezers to stuff wriggling meal worms down the gullets of tiny baby juncos, said the baby birds need to be fed every half-hour around the clock.
    — John Orr, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017
  • Obviously thanks to the private foundations and governments who fund the awesome research which feeds the gullet of this weblog.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2010
  • Instead of feeling good, my formerly beloved vino and vodka would only set my gullet aflame.
    — NBC News, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The name for the garganelli pasta shape is derived from a northern Italian dialect meaning chicken gullet.
    — AJC.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • An environmental envoi, perhaps, with Buzz washed up on a beach alongside other jetsam, or clogging the gullet of a whale?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
  • As in every country where McDonald’s opens restaurants, the chain didn’t just shove its Western offerings down Russia’s gullet.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Then again, movie fights can certainly go pear-shaped when technology is funneled down our gullets with liver-engorging force.
    — Mary H. K. Choi, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2011
  • Theoretically, that means a human can stuff an astonishing 84 hot dogs down his or her gullet in 10 minutes.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2020
  • In several shots, the crocodile appears to have completely disappeared down the python’s gullet, but upon closer inspection, viewers can discern the end of the animal’s spiked tail peeking out of the snake’s mouth.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 12 July 2019

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