How to Use gullet in a Sentence

gullet

noun

• The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• The gray gullet of the sky seems to have swallowed a molten coin.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Placed at the very back of the throat near the gullet, the small teeth grind the plankton just before the food goes down.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2012
• And if that doesn’t do it, try the wine cellar for a gullet of the other good stuff.
  — Jordan Riefe, Orange County Register, 31 Oct. 2019
• The deep gullets at the base of its teeth keep the blade running cool, and this helps prevent burn marks on the lumber.
  — Richard Romanski, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2020
• That piece of bagel that gets stuck halfway down your gullet.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• Some had deformed wings, useless, and for others, that was all that was left of them — a wing, the rest in the gullet of a bird.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• The gullet’s width plays a significant role in how the saddle fits the horse.
  — Jennifer Blair, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• Glouglou: French slang for light red wine that is so chuggable it glou-glou-glous all the way down your gullet.
  — Belle Cushing, Bon Appetit, 28 Aug. 2017
• There’s something comforting in seeing sparks light up the gullet of the earth.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
• The burger empathizes with both your wallet and your gullet.
  — Oset Babur, GQ, 22 Oct. 2017
• Packard was in real danger, Mayo said, if not from the whale's gullet, then from the air pressure in his own lungs as the whale surfaced to spit him out.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 11 June 2021
• No one wearing a mask has ever had a June bug blunder down their gullet while talking.
  — Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
• Moshfegh, in her fourth novel, thrives in the mire, a happy little worm sliding dirt down her gullet.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• Oil was no longer just the lubricant easing a bite of steak down your gullet, nor merely a boiling cesspool from which French fries and doughnuts emerged.
  — Ted Trautman, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
• At Bird’s, those diners can feel safe knowing the oysters only took a short ride before reaching their gullets.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• There are twists and turns going thisaway and thataway and a series of drains that prevent water from dripping down the 6.4's gullet.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 28 May 2021
• The eponymous maw of the largemouth bass — and the fish’s ability to suck prey into that gaping gullet in a rapacious strike — are part of the lore and legend of the bass to the many anglers who pursue it.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2017
• With each turn of a card, the next act is revealed, and in a flash the world can end, devoured in the misshapen gullet of an entity beyond mortal comprehension.
  — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
• The water that runs down your gullet will, within minutes and without processing of any kind, become some of the dominant fluid in your veins and your flesh.
  — Curt Stager, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2014
• Today, the digestive metaphor should be reversed: New York is a gullet in distress, vomiting its tonnage into the world.
  — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
• An Atlantic puffin has just landed, its beak overflowing with enough fish to fill a pelican’s gullet.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• Lead Wildlife Technician Ashley Damm, while using tweezers to stuff wriggling meal worms down the gullets of tiny baby juncos, said the baby birds need to be fed every half-hour around the clock.
  — John Orr, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017
• Obviously thanks to the private foundations and governments who fund the awesome research which feeds the gullet of this weblog.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2010
• Instead of feeling good, my formerly beloved vino and vodka would only set my gullet aflame.
  — NBC News, 6 Jan. 2018
• The name for the garganelli pasta shape is derived from a northern Italian dialect meaning chicken gullet.
  — AJC.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• An environmental envoi, perhaps, with Buzz washed up on a beach alongside other jetsam, or clogging the gullet of a whale?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
• As in every country where McDonald’s opens restaurants, the chain didn’t just shove its Western offerings down Russia’s gullet.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• Then again, movie fights can certainly go pear-shaped when technology is funneled down our gullets with liver-engorging force.
  — Mary H. K. Choi, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2011
• Theoretically, that means a human can stuff an astonishing 84 hot dogs down his or her gullet in 10 minutes.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2020

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024