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Recent Examples of gulletCut away lungs, reaching up into the neck as far as possible to sever gullet and windpipe.—Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025 What excites me, after a decade and change of writing virtually the same review for every superhero film that was shoved down our gullets, is my suspicion that these movies will at least have the potential to suck in different and sometimes wildly unexpected ways.—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2025 The coverage of him has often been over the top and forced down the gullets of sports fans.—Zach Harper, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024 In one example, an individual bird was decapitated and had a corncob placed in its gullet.—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gullet
Before the doors opened, youth lion dancers moved through the space in a traditional blessing ceremony, weaving between guests and collecting dollar bills offered through the lions’ mouths as onlookers cheered.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
31 May 2026
Through narrow, treacherous tunnels, some waterlogged and cold enough for wetsuits, others so tight oxygen was scarce, the men navigated 260 meters (approximately 850 feet), from the chamber they’d been trapped in to the cave’s mouth, a distance equivalent to the height of a 78-story building.
All these devices had escaped the maw of oblivion.
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Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Resistance, rebellion and retribution all come out to play in one of Disney+’s most consistent series that’s unafraid to put its larger-than-life characters into the maw of Venus fly trap-like set of moral and ethical issues.
Visitors entering the SoHo gallery’s second floor pass through the open jaws of a towering wolf sculpture, one of three oversized works commissioned from Garel specifically for the gallery.
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Thomas Waller,
Footwear News,
4 June 2026
The jaws appear to belong to organisms that resembled octopuses, but their exact classification, size in life and potential ecological role remain a mystery, according to the ScienceNews.