gobbled; gobbling
ˈgä-b(ə-)liŋ 
1
: to swallow or eat greedily
2
: to take eagerly : grab
—usually used with up
3
: to read rapidly or greedily
—usually used with up
gobbled; gobbling
ˈgä-b(ə-)liŋ
1
: to make the natural guttural noise of a male turkey
2
: to make a sound resembling the gobble of a turkey
gobble
noun
Examples of gobble in a Sentence
Verb (1)
gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days
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Calmatters, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
Yet wireless companies and researchers today still set their sights on a marketplace where consumer demand will gobble up as much bandwidth as can be provided by their mobile networks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2025
And a lot of wings will be eaten this weekend
The American Chicken Council projects that Americans will gobble up 1.47 billion wings during Super Bowl weekend, 20 million more than last year.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
The Dodgers have been gobbling up free agents like crazy this offseason, adding Japanese hurler Roki Sasaki on Friday.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 19 Jan. 2025
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Verb
Santa Clara is the busiest city in California for data center activity, with more than 50 server farms gobbling up 60% of energy from the utility.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
Yet wireless companies and researchers today still set their sights on a marketplace where consumer demand will gobble up as much bandwidth as can be provided by their mobile networks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2025
And a lot of wings will be eaten this weekend
The American Chicken Council projects that Americans will gobble up 1.47 billion wings during Super Bowl weekend, 20 million more than last year.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
The Dodgers have been gobbling up free agents like crazy this offseason, adding Japanese hurler Roki Sasaki on Friday.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 19 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gobble
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“Gobble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gobble. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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