gullet

Definition of gulletnext
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 Cut 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
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Noun
  • Phenomenal world-of-mouth is more than making up for generally lousy reviews (its Rotten Tomatoes critics score is 40 percent).
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Flint joined the scoring party in the 32nd minute with a header off her own miss from a tight angle on the left of the goal mouth.
    Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • All these devices had escaped the maw of oblivion.
    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.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
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  • An analysis of fossil jaws belonging to octopuses that lived between 100 million and 72 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period, shows that these creatures may have been the largest animals in the sea and smart to boot, rivaling sharks and marine reptiles in their powers of predation.
    Kate Wong, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Then again, this is a man who has sustained 14 broken hands, a plate in his wrist, two broken jaws and reconstructive surgery on his face.
    Brian Martin, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026

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“Gullet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gullet. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.

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