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

Visitors slid down the pole in “The Fire Cat,” slithered into the gullet of the boa constrictor in “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and lounged in a faux bubble bath in “Harry the Dirty Dog.”

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2022

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

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