gulp
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To survive, Agarwal says she and her husband gulp down glasses of sweet and salty lemonade from another vendor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
Instead, something like this could happen: Maybe a raw milk drinker will gulp down some bird flu virus.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024
I gulp, then cover it up with a cough.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
As we open the gate, Matt visibly gulps.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025
“Often they feed by diving to the bottom and sifting big gulps of sediment through their baleen, consuming the amphipods in great numbers,” Milstein said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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
A second piece of bacon was mutilated and consumed in two carnivorous gulps.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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
When concert halls around the country shuttered their doors and gulped with anxiety about the pandemic future — this was March 2020, not that anyone has forgotten — Martha Gilmer saw an opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024
Arrows pointed toward one palace, larger than all the others, so large it took up half the map, and I gulped.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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
Yes, gulping the liquid the night before was an ordeal — try drinking three liters of anything in three hours, going to sleep, then waking up six hours later for one final liter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
“You feel feverish, feel pain, and get tons of headaches. Once you’re at home, the pain starts. In you shoulders, back and arms,” Ródriguez said, gulping down water during a break.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 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
Greta lay on the ground, clutching her chest and gulping fast, painful breaths.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
