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

As this pink delicacy was halfway down my gullet, you screamed out, “Tidbit, that’s the prop! We still need to shoot a closeup from another angle.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 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

The maids, cooks, assistant cooks, and pastry chef had all made themselves scarce, which meant there was no food to be had, and Gherland’s gullet was quite empty.

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