gobble
Example Sentences
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In the 19th century, children gobbled chiles and mutton and turnips and jellied pig’s brain.
Long ago, Mustaine learned when not to take the bait even if he sometimes gobbled it anyway.
From Los Angeles Times
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.