gullet

as in mouth
the tube that leads from the mouth through the throat to the stomach food traveling down the gullet

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Recent Examples of gullet In one example, an individual bird was decapitated and had a corncob placed in its gullet. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 Nov. 2024 The majestic bird made Central Park an impromptu restaurant recently, settling in a grassy area to dine on its latest catch, which happened to be the rat stuffed in its gullet. Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024 Eventually, a freaky, spider-like facehugger will hatch from an egg and, true to its name, latch onto a host’s face and force an embryo down their unwilling gullets. Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024 Your family of otters may already be half-digested in a crocodile’s gullet, but what about writing a horror movie for kids? Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gullet
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Noun
  • The health of the person In adults, signs of poisoning can include pins and needles sensations (typically in your hands, feet, and around your mouth); loss of coordination; loss of peripheral vision; speech, hearing, and walking impairments; and muscle weakness, according to the EPA.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Weinstein often looked haggard and out of it — unshaven, mouth ajar, eyes bleary.
    Phoebe Eaton, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Since February, and have blocked these borrowers' path out of default and are now feeding them into the maw of the government debt collection machine.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In their passionate, fiery maw, there’s little room to do anything else, let alone be present with others.
    Big Think, Big Think, 8 Mar. 2025

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“Gullet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gullet. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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