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How to use gobble in a sentence

22 example sentences · verb, noun

Gobble means to eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up). Example: “He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.”

Examples of gobble by meaning

verbTo eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up).

  • He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
  • Most like,” said Catweazle, gobbling the banana.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 50

More sentences with gobble

  • The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.From the entry gobble up
  • Millennials are gobbling down plant-based burgers, prompting meat producers to question the health benefits of “ultra-processed imitations.”2019 December 3, Anahad O’Connor, “Fake Meat vs. Real Meat”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry gobble down
  • Ives gobbles up Chrissy Nova, and Lia Lor gets lost in the muff of Chloe Foster.2016 August, “5-Star Fuck Reviews”, in Club (Pornography), Paramus, NJ: Club Publications, Inc, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69?. From the entry tribbing
  • The fire gulped up the kitchen cabinets and gobbled up the dazzling living room furniture.2015, Stephanie A. Pointing, From Ashes to Roses. From the entry gulp up
  • The dragonness saw it, and instead of gobbling it down, adopted it.2012, Piers Anthony, The Chronicles of Xanth: Luck of the Draw. From the entry dragonness
  • He liked it, he even liked the way she made up for her thin lips by gobbling.1999, John Casey, The Half-Life of Happiness. From the entry gobbly
  • Happy Days had nine gobble holes, but no outlanes or gap between the flippers.1997, Gary Flower, Bill Kurtz, Pinball: the lure of the silver ball. From the entry gobble hole
  • He had been gobbling at the slightest sound of my hen calls earlier.1984, Ken Warner, Gun Digest, 1985, page 16. From the entry cranked up
  • His protest included a carpe diem; seize the day before Saturn gobbles it up.1963, Paul West, “The limits”, in The Modern Novel, London: Hutchinson of London, →OCLC, part one (Flux), page 11. From the entry craftly
  • Tennis players take umbrage as pickleballers gobble up their courts.2026 April 15, Holly Burns, “Tennis vs. Pickleball: What’s a Better Workout?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry pickleballer
  • Today we will peck and gobble big fat worms.”2013, Janice N. Harrington, Busy-Busy Little Chick, →ISBN. From the entry pruck
  • The average person kind of just gobbles down the same dozen meals and doesn’t really think much about food.1995 August 6, Geraldine Baum, quoting Michael Jacobson, “Do They Enjoy Really Being Dinner Party Don’t-Invite-’ems? […]”, in Los Angeles…. From the entry gobble down
  • One after another, gobfuls of mash are gobbled up.1989, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, published 1998, page 121. From the entry gobful
  • There will be another four waiting to be gobbled there, as well as a whole new mazeful of cheese bits.1982, Len Albin, Secrets of the video game super stars, page 36. From the entry mazeful
  • The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 24. From the entry flapping
  • It is reported that I answered, "Then I'll jump out of the window and gobble it up all by myself."1965 March 25, Richard Willstätter, “My Ancestors”, in Lilli S[chwenk] Hornig, transl., edited by Arthur Stoll, From My Life: The Memoirs…. From the entry grandfather
  • Marine food webbers gobble their fill.2023, Leslie Bulion, Galápagos: Islands of Change. From the entry webber
  • Folks gobbled this book up because it packed intricate puzzles, propulsive plotwork, clammy paranoia, cheeky irreligiousness and armchair globetrotting into one teasingly easy-to-read brain snack.2009 June 20, Geoff Pevere, “The Century So Far: Books”, in Toronto Star. From the entry plotwork
  • Chlorine acts like a Pac-Man of the high atmosphere, gobbling one ozone molecule after another and then being regenerated to gobble again.1995, Bruce Piasecki, Corporate environmental strategy: the avalanche of change since Bhopal. From the entry Pac-Man
  • The ironic deconstruction of all meaningful discourse, including normative discourse, says Gergen, "is like a Pac-Man of social pattern, gobbling all that stands in its path."1995, J Richard Middleton, Brian J Walsh, Truth is stranger than it used to be: biblical faith in a postmodern age. From the entry Pac-Man

Meaning of gobble

  1. verb To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up).
  2. noun Fellatio; a blowjob.
  3. noun An act of eating hastily or greedily.

Full definition of gobble

Questions about gobble in a sentence

How do you use gobble in a sentence?
Gobble is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.”
What is a short sentence with gobble?
“Marine food webbers gobble their fill.”
What does gobble mean?
Gobble means to eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up).

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gobble (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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