gullet

Example Sentences

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Instead of slamming directly into a flat barrier, particles move along the surface and are guided onward toward the gullet.

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025

The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2022

Unlike other birds, the male bittern does not use its voice box but muscles around his windpipe to expand his entire gullet into an echo chamber.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2022

There’s even an Easter egg homage to a scene in the 1962 original, in which Kong jams a tree trunk down Godzilla’s gullet.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2021

Second of all, there was no way her bird gullet would tolerate meat.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill