gullets

Example Sentences

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After days of agony, success is a room of people glancing at Lizzy’s work while stuffing their gullets with cheese.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

Scientists still aren’t sure how often the rats anoint, or even how they tolerate the toxins themselves, especially if some of it ends up going down their gullets.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2020

Males and females share the load equally, flying up to 20 miles to stuff their gullets with herring and sand lance to feed their voracious young.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2019

In 1918 some 3,000,000 gallons of wine were imported to fill the slippers of chorus girls and the gullets of the rich.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2012

I fled down alleyways as dark and stifling as the gullets of dragons, through sizzling sparks and palls of smoke, under clotheslines fluttering with singed sheets.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros