gobble up
Example Sentences
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Such allusions leave “Backrooms” open to charges of being derivative; Mr. Parsons is of a generation that has a tendency to gobble up content and issue reworked versions of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Power plants that had been slated for closure have been pressed into longer service while new ones come online as tech giants gobble up gigawatts of capacity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
Predators destroy an estimated 25 million birds, chicks, and eggs a year, while 30 million possums gobble up 21,000 tons of vegetation a night, depleting the food supply for native animals.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2025
The toxins accumulate in filter-feeding fish, and then poison larger mammals who gobble up the fish in mass quantities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
And beneath them, down in the clear water, yard-long catfish lay on the sandy bottom, waiting to gobble up any young birds that happened to fall out of the nests.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
