as in to inhale
to swallow or eat greedily the college students scarfed the entire contents of the care package in one sitting

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Recent Examples of scarf After 10 minutes of scarfing hot dogs, a new men’s champion emerged — Patrick Bertoletti. Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024 While scarfing my crunchy bread salad, another colorful plate of vegetables appeared, this time, in pops of green and a pink-purple hybrid that can only be attributed to beets. Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024 All eyes are now on current world no. 2 Geoffrey Esper, who finished second in last year’s competition after scarfing 49 dogs in 10 minutes. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 12 June 2024 The sky was growing dark with clouds, but people were still eating ice cream and standing in clusters on the lawn, the little kids running around in their clip-on ties and their shiny shoes while the dogs waddled after them, scarfing the crumbs that fell from their paper plates. Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for scarf
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  • Amy Louise Leonard, 20, a makeup artist from Greater Manchester in England, lost the ability to walk for three weeks after inhaling a balloon filled with nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing gas.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Some older people or those who are frail may not be able to generate enough of a strong, quick breath to effectively inhale the dry powdered version of the medicine.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • Maybe just don’t devour the donut in front of your Spidey D Plush.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Earning rave review, this Advent calendar is praised for being well-made, with each treat packaged individually to avoid them falling from one special day to the next, or your pup sneaking into the calendar to devour all the treats at once.
    Christine Persaud, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • The New York Mets set the one-day team record, wolfing down 103 one day in 2014 while waiting for a game that was postponed.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Other dogs wolf it down in a matter of seconds, but sometimes eating too fast can make your dog sick.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • Perhaps a whale or a shark would arrive to gulp down the passengers, one by one.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Both bands specialize in grooves that feel bulbous and fetid: kick drums gulping with fear, flickering guitars evoking lantern light.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Scarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scarf. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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