How to Use gulp in a Sentence

gulp

verb
  • She told him not to gulp his food.
  • He gulped back tears as he thanked the rescuers.
  • The exhausted racers lay on the ground, gulping air.
  • The exhausted racers were gulping for air.
  • I gulped nervously before beginning my speech.
  • Slurp your bev up like a straw or tip the bottle back to gulp it down.
    — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2025
  • In three of those, prisoners lurched, moved or gulped for air.
    — Lauren Gill, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Others can’t stand the sound of gulping.
    — Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • But this year-and-a-half-old pinniped had gulped down about 100.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Don't gulp in deep breaths of frigid air and talk as little as possible.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
  • My grandmother made a strange gulping sound and walked out of the kitchen.
    — Victor Lodato, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Just seconds later, the whales appear to gulp down their prey.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 9 Oct. 2017
  • And visitors can even help with chores such as washing clothes by hand or — gulp!
    — cleveland.com, 29 May 2017
  • The cayenne pepper lingers on the tongue for a full minute after gulping the shot down.
    — April Benshosan, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Arie instantly gulps, then admits that, yeah, he's had some fun in his day.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Easy to say, hard to do when money is tight, but these companies gulp hard and do it.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps a whale or a shark would arrive to gulp down the passengers, one by one.
    — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But no star has ever been caught in the act of gulping down a planet this way—until now.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
  • The proviso was that the show would be produced, gulp, without a script.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
  • Those with dogs mingled in front of the doors, their dogs happily gulping down fresh air.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 9 Sep. 2017
  • To drink like a local, skip the straw and gulp it — ideally while noshing on clam cakes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Mean for mean’s sake or 100 percent willing to gulp gossip is not cool.
    — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The strong smell and taste of pickle juice makes gulping it hard for some people to tolerate.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • These flies are easy prey for fish, who rise to the surface of the river and open their gulping fish mouths to suck in the bugs.
    — Heather Radke, Longreads, 16 June 2018
  • Gusty guts In the next human trial, the researchers had one person gulp the pill twice.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Inside, Connor ate French toast sticks and gulped milk at the kitchen table.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2018
  • From there, the stunned musician fell to the ground, had to gulp down a glass of water and give his audition.
    — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018
  • There was no sound anywhere in the blind morning other than his scraping, the teen’s, and his own gulping breath.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • To maintain the oxygen the eggs need, the male will swim to the surface, gulp air, bring it back, and exhale, over and over.
    — National Geographic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The drivers kept the balloons in their mouths and carried water bottles to gulp down the dope if pulled over by police.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2018

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