gullets

Example Sentences

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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

The 18-game losing streak stuck in some gullets.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2014

The noise had become clamorous and insistent as the mother swallow returned again and again to thrust masticated worms down the chicks’ gullets.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2014

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