How to Use gullet in a Sentence

gullet

noun
  • That piece of bagel that gets stuck halfway down your gullet.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The gray gullet of the sky seems to have swallowed a molten coin.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.
    — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • And if that doesn’t do it, try the wine cellar for a gullet of the other good stuff.
    — Jordan Riefe, Orange County Register, 31 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Placed at the very back of the throat near the gullet, the small teeth grind the plankton just before the food goes down.
    — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2012
  • The gullet’s width plays a significant role in how the saddle fits the horse.
    — Jennifer Blair, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The deep gullets at the base of its teeth keep the blade running cool, and this helps prevent burn marks on the lumber.
    — Richard Romanski, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2020
  • There’s something comforting in seeing sparks light up the gullet of the earth.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
  • No one wearing a mask has ever had a June bug blunder down their gullet while talking.
    — Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
  • This mix is a scrumptious way to get vegetables happily down the kid’s gullets.
    — Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Moshfegh, in her fourth novel, thrives in the mire, a happy little worm sliding dirt down her gullet.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • 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
  • There is a small gullet in his mouth, so Cookie can actually eat something the size of a small fist.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • After days of agony, success is a room of people glancing at Lizzy’s work while stuffing their gullets with cheese.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Instead of feeling good, my formerly beloved vino and vodka would only set my gullet aflame.
    — NBC News, 6 Jan. 2018
  • That public has continually widened its gullet and gulped.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • At Bird’s, those diners can feel safe knowing the oysters only took a short ride before reaching their gullets.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Packard was in real danger, Mayo said, if not from the whale's gullet, then from the air pressure in his own lungs as the whale surfaced to spit him out.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 11 June 2021
  • An Atlantic puffin has just landed, its beak overflowing with enough fish to fill a pelican’s gullet.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Oil was no longer just the lubricant easing a bite of steak down your gullet, nor merely a boiling cesspool from which French fries and doughnuts emerged.
    — Ted Trautman, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • Then again, movie fights can certainly go pear-shaped when technology is funneled down our gullets with liver-engorging force.
    — Mary H. K. Choi, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2011
  • 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
  • The water that runs down your gullet will, within minutes and without processing of any kind, become some of the dominant fluid in your veins and your flesh.
    — Curt Stager, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2014
  • With each turn of a card, the next act is revealed, and in a flash the world can end, devoured in the misshapen gullet of an entity beyond mortal comprehension.
    — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
  • The name for the garganelli pasta shape is derived from a northern Italian dialect meaning chicken gullet.
    — AJC.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Obviously thanks to the private foundations and governments who fund the awesome research which feeds the gullet of this weblog.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2010
  • 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
  • An environmental envoi, perhaps, with Buzz washed up on a beach alongside other jetsam, or clogging the gullet of a whale?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
  • In one example, an individual bird was decapitated and had a corncob placed in its gullet.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 Nov. 2024

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