gobble

Example Sentences

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During the peak of the pandemic, celebrities as well as lower-profile people of means were gobbling up Hidden Hills homes like hotcakes.

From MarketWatch

The firm acknowledges the obvious “stuff over digital” trades already gobbled up by investors.

From MarketWatch

AI companies are gobbling up memory chips and other electronic parts, and makers of those parts are snapping up materials.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Spinach, of course. Don't you remember how Popeye gobbles spinach every time he needs more strength and bigger muscles?"

From Literature

But I think that people read that as he wants to gobble up every pie he sees.

From The Wall Street Journal