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Recent Examples of gobbleMy club kept cutting through the kikuyu grass but completely missing the ball, the impossibly thick rough gobbling up more and more of it with each attempt.—Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025 Acorns generally are not a good choice for humans to eat raw, although deer will gobble them up.—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025 Players race to gobble up the most pepperoni marbles in each chaotic round.—Clint Davis, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025 Figure skaters with cats on their heads, dog astronauts gobbling tennis balls, unusually agile horseback riders standing astride multiple animals — these were some of the snippets seen in its short video presentation.—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gobble
Its use was banned in many countries around the turn of the millennium amid concerns that the fibers, when airborne, could result in potentially fatal lung diseases if inhaled.
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Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
Miners argue increased subjection to the dust has led to an eruption of black lung, an incurable disease associated with inhaling the particles.
What's more, while virtually all VTOLs being developed these days are electric, the Janus-1 is powered by a turboshaft engine that gulps n' burns diesel, kerosene or Jet A fuel.
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Ben Coxworth
October 21,
New Atlas,
21 Oct. 2025
Perhaps a whale or a shark would arrive to gulp down the passengers, one by one.
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