gulped

past tense of gulp

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gulped That public has continually widened its gullet and gulped. Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 Many years had passed since Caity Maple, a Sacramento councilmember, gulped down orange juice. Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2026 With the dead and the wounded sprawled around them, the mocambos gulped the wine from the sacramental chalice. Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026 As studios gulped down profits, talent below and above the line began to demand adequate shares of the pie. Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026 Alarms go off, phones come out, coffee is gulped down, and before either partner is fully awake, they’re already headed into separate days. Mark Travers, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026 So the 46,000 at the Stadium of Light gulped again. Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulped
Verb
  • It is said that Salvador Dali, Marilyn Monroe and Ernest Hemingway are among the luminaries who have sipped drinks at the King Cole Bar and Salon.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • As the two young women talked, the thirty-five-year-old man sipped the icemelt at the bottom of his glass.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • Spores can enter through a cut in the skin or be inhaled or ingested.
    RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026
  • There's been a drastic increase Fine particulates and gases, including carbon monoxide, are inhaled and can lodge deep within the lungs, causing inflammation and irritation.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 July 2026
Verb
  • Kenzo leaned back so that his bobbing Adam’s apple was visible, and drank it down in one gulp.
    Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Sports bars and restaurants overflowed with customers who drank beer taps dry.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Their father devoured his meal, slurping up soup with his right hand and swallowing bread spread with miso paste with his left.
    Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Suddenly, you’re scooped up, whisked to a perch, and efficiently devoured by a blue dasher dragonfly.
    Rachel Sargent Mirus, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The idea that schools might directly pay college athletes, whose jerseys sometimes generated millions of dollars in sales, through a revenue-sharing model would have been scoffed at in 2003.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 July 2026
  • McClintock’s colleagues, obsessed with scientific reductionism, scoffed at her near-spiritual dedication to understanding organismal biology in its fullness and complexity.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 July 2026

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“Gulped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulped. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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