gullet

Example Sentences

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Their gill arch system forms a funnel that is widest at the mouth and narrows toward the gullet.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025

That would be the mass equivalent of 370 suns a year disappearing down a cosmic gullet 11 billion years ago at the dawn of time.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024

Oesophageal cancer is a cancer that's found anywhere in the oesophagus, sometimes called the gullet or food pipe, which connects your mouth to your stomach.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023

Moshfegh, in her fourth novel, thrives in the mire, a happy little worm sliding dirt down her gullet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2022

He’d had to bring them up—along with a pouch of chloropellets and an extra set of lockpicks he’d forced down his gullet in case of emergency—every other hour to keep from digesting them.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo