gobbling

Example Sentences

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The marauding monkeys brazenly snatch ice cream, cakes and crisps from unwitting tourists in addition to gobbling abandoned leftovers from bins or food directly offered to them.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Now the redwoods are regrowing, “gorgeous” and gobbling carbon, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

Artificial-intelligence infrastructure is gobbling up so much memory that many suppliers have sold out their capacity through at least next year.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

It’ll extend that lead if it succeeds in gobbling up Warner Bros.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

Many people gobbled it up, much as they were gobbling up the novels of Charles Dickens.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman