gobbling 1 of 2

present participle of gobble

gobbling

2 of 2

adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gobbling
Adjective
Hoosiers are watching their electric bills balloon, communities are rallying against energy-gobbling data centers, and government officials, consumer advocates and utilities have competing interests and ideas for how to move forward, including building several nuclear reactors. Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 20 Oct. 2025 My 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 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 Roughly 1-in-5 California households have housing expenses gobbling up more than half of their incomes. Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 23 Sep. 2025 Looking to spend an upcoming weekend frolicking in a pumpkin patch, enjoying a hayride or gobbling up some homemade treats? Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2025 Is this the beginning of a long-term trend of AI gobbling up jobs? Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Astronomers have discovered a hungry baby planet gobbling up material around an infant star located around 430 light-years from Earth. Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025 At its nadir, when Rayya is gobbling morphine pills and shooting cocaine and snarling at hospice nurses, Gilbert begins questioning the nature of existence. Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobbling
Verb
  • This is the painstaking process of counting and measuring every stud, sheet of drywall, window, and baseboard from 2D plans, quietly devouring time and budgets.
    Jon Stojan, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Outdoor spiders are hard at work, devouring home and garden pests such as ants, flies, mosquitoes, aphids, and thrips.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Essential oils can be used in various ways, such as inhaling them through a diffuser or applying a diluted solution to the skin.
    Emily Brown, Verywell Health, 21 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.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One night Icarius got all his friends together for a wine-tasting party that quickly got out of hand and turned into a wine-gulping party.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The pressure is always on the taker, the player standing, gulping, trying desperately not to unload their lunch onto the turf, preparing to do something theoretically simple — kick the ball into the net from 12 yards with only one opponent able to stop them.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Gobbling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbling. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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