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Recent Examples of gobbleChelsea have now gobbled up 17 non-‘Big Six’ players in the past decade, something which speaks to both their rampant transfer activity and a seeming preference for young players already proven in England’s top division.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2026 But there’s something else the sector is gobbling up — space in warehouses across the state.—
Zachary Hansen,
AJC.com,
11 Aug. 2026 The instant Schwartzel's ball hit the pond, a fish — seemingly a largemouth bass — exploded from the water and gobbled it up like someone had just tossed a topwater lure directly onto its head.—
Amber Harding Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
11 Aug. 2026 In June, in a move that reverberated through the tech industry, Apple raised prices across nearly all of its product lines in response to the surging costs of memory and storage, which are being gobbled up for AI infrastructure.—
Mark Yarm,
PC Magazine,
4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gobble
The larvae come from the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly, which invades open wounds or the mucous membranes of body openings in any warm-blooded animal, including humans, and devours tissue, causing the wounds to become increasingly deep and painful.
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Abraham Tellez,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Aug. 2026
The Milky Way has something of a torrid and violent history, given that our galaxy has fueled its own growth by cannibalistically devouring smaller galaxies.
Rather than trying to gulp the slimy thing down, Wilkinson went into the kitchen and prepared an extravagant breakfast for himself, complete with Dr Pepper to wash it down.