gullet

Definition of gulletnext
as in mouth
the tube that leads from the mouth through the throat to the stomach food traveling down the gullet

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Recent Examples of gullet 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 What excites me, after a decade and change of writing virtually the same review for every superhero film that was shoved down our gullets, is my suspicion that these movies will at least have the potential to suck in different and sometimes wildly unexpected ways. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2025 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 In one example, an individual bird was decapitated and had a corncob placed in its gullet. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gullet
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Noun
  • But when his drill struck rebar, the recoil snapped back into his mouth, breaking his teeth all over again.
    Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Caught on camera During that inpatient stay, hospital staff members observed the child eating multiple full meals by mouth.
    Maya Rosenberg, NBC news, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Resistance, rebellion and retribution all come out to play in one of Disney+’s most consistent series that’s unafraid to put its larger-than-life characters into the maw of Venus fly trap-like set of moral and ethical issues.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • And as such are grappling with the complex history of figures like him, whose lust for profit is matched only by a prescient sense of what the world will need next to satiate the ravenous maw of industry and global capital.
    Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The green Rio Grande rests like a ribbon in the jaws of jagged canyons.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • First responders used the jaws of life to free the vehicle’s passengers, according to media reports.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026

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“Gullet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gullet. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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