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How to use gullet in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, verb

Gullet means the throat or esophagus. Example: “Gallager tossed another drink down his scarified gullet.”

Examples of gullet by meaning

nounThe throat or esophagus.

  • Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself.2020 May 26, Charles Bramesco, “Corona-sploitation: is it too soon for Hollywood to make Covid-19 movies?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

verbTo make grooves or indentations.

  • The better way is to gullet or "gum" out the teeth on a grinder.1925, Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan: Volume 29, page 234

More sentences with gullet

  • Gallager tossed another drink down his scarified gullet.From the entry scarified
  • Revvy pulled a hunting knife from his back pocket and sliced open the gullet.2020 May 26, Patti Callahan Henry, Losing the Moon, Penguin, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry revvy
  • The little figures made him think of paramecia, sinister organisms with gullets and feeding grooves.1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, 2003 edition, →ISBN, page 560. From the entry paramecium
  • If there are things in it that stick in your gullet why ignore them?1996, The Middle Way - Volumes 71-72, page 255. From the entry stick in someone's gullet
  • A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.1936, George Orwell, chapter 8, in Keep the Aspidistra Flying. From the entry sup
  • When I'm anxious, me gullet gets gnashy.2017, Kara LaReau, The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters: The Jolly Regina, →ISBN. From the entry gnashy
  • You need a bull's gullet for neat Demerara."2010, Charmaine A. Nelson, Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada, page 314, quoting Yardley (a seaman in Canada…. From the entry demerara
  • How would you feel if I was the one who might get knifed in the gullet by some scumball?"2002, Iris Johansen, Body of Lies, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry scumball
  • The Kechari Mudra is accomplished by thrusting the tongue into the gullet, by turning it over itself, and keeping the eyesight in the middle.1915 [14th century], Pancham Sinh., Hatha Yoga Pradipika, translation of original by Swami Swatmarama. From the entry mudra
  • One eend dat chain it bean in de jack feesh's gullet, an' t'udduh eend dat chain it bean in the frog's gullet.1900, Ed[ward] Mott, “A Plague of Egypt”, in The Black Homer of Jimtown, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 45. From the entry eend
  • An on-screen pill bottle works like Chekhov’s gun: Eventually, its contents will be fired at an actor’s mouth, or smashed between his lips, or hurled into his gullet.2023 May 1, Daniel Engber, “No One in Movies Knows How to Swallow a Pill”, in The Atlantic. From the entry Chekhov's gun
  • Instead of racing one another to see who could down oysters the fastest, they improvised, and started simply opening their gullets and pouring in the processed swinemeat.2014, Andi Thomas, Alexander Netherton, “International Break 1”, in This Does Not Slip: A Diary of the 2013/14 Premier League…. From the entry swinemeat
  • The more loaded phrase is the middle one, "she slit his gullet," since it captures a sense of crudeness and suddenness that the other two do not.2003, L. Susan Bond, Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity in Theory and Style, page 30. From the entry loaded
  • A technique employing either the strobotorch or high-speed photography has been evolved for observing the behaviour of the sawdust in the tooth gullets of a circular saw.1950 October, E.J. Salisbury, Forest Products Research 1949, page 3. From the entry strobotorch

Meaning of gullet

  1. noun The throat or esophagus.
  2. noun The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
  3. noun The space between the teeth of a saw blade.

Full definition of gullet

Questions about gullet in a sentence

How do you use gullet in a sentence?
Gullet is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Gallager tossed another drink down his scarified gullet.”
What is a short sentence with gullet?
“When I'm anxious, me gullet gets gnashy.”
What does gullet mean?
Gullet means the throat or esophagus.

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