gulp
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It had somehow learned to peel off the bottles’ lids and gulp the cream down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Again, it's not just the losses that might be making some Celtic fans gulp.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Runcie, a former arts columnist for the Daily Telegraph, has created something so delightfully snackable that you may, as I did, gulp it down in two or three sittings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
The first season ended in April and dropped weekly, but waiting to gulp down episodes in a couple of sittings may be more rewarding than taking it in over a couple of months.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025
I gave a big sniff and a big gulp.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
Again, don't hold your breath – the company has been losing money hand over fist, the blast furnaces are nearing the end of their useful life, and the cost of energy it gulps is enormous.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025
ChatGPT gulps roughly a 16-ounce bottle in as few as 10 queries, calculates Shaolei Ren, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, and his colleagues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024
With bottles and glasses lined up before them, judges from several countries sampled various brands, swishing gulps of water and sometimes spitting mouthfuls into canisters, as wine tasters do.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Most worrying, despite some effusive high notes and a sympathetic presence, the soprano Latonia Moore sounded ragged in the title role, her voice weakening by the ends of phrases, separated by big gulps of breath.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
Mom gulps, then slumps into a chair, crosses her arms on the table, and buries her head.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Trout, their speckled flanks gleaming in the sun, gulped them down one by one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
“The money question remains as to how many barrels vacated by India will be gulped up by the Chinese teapots,” Raj said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
When Farrell singled out Mack Hansen for praise after the Western Force game last weekend, Freeman might have gulped hard.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
And when a Labrador retriever owned by another company officer gulped down a bagel impaled with a toothpick, he said, most of the resulting $10,5000 surgical bill was covered as well.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
I gulped down the last of my egg roll.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
Nearby, crowds huddled in thin strips of shade outside pavilions, gulping free bottles of water that workers were distributing throughout the event.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Over time Paul learnt to consciously breathe by gulping down air, using his throat muscles to force air into his lungs.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024
The sensation is extremely unnatural and unpleasant, but I prefer sleeping with that discomfort over being so tired that I have to squeeze naps into my day like a dehydrated man gulping water.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2023
Still others are gulping slushies to cool their inner core.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
He brought it to his mouth, then made a gulping sound as he pretended to drink it down.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
