gullets
Example Sentences
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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
Like a fairy-tale character, you can pass through the darkness of a thousand gullets and be miraculously reconstituted upon egress.
From Slate • May 5, 2016
The 18-game losing streak stuck in some gullets.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2014
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
