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Recent Examples of gullet
In one example, an individual bird was decapitated and had a corncob placed in its gullet.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gullet
Noun
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Both clubs were founded in the same working-class neighbourhood, known as the mouth of Buenos Aires.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
8 June 2025
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In response, the longtime reality TV star, 36, drew her hand to her mouth and started to cry.—
Chris Jordan,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
Noun
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Since February, Donald Trump and Linda McMahon 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,
2 June 2025
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Not all of the material from the wrecked star falls around the black hole and eventually into its maw, however.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
30 May 2025
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“Gullet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gullet. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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