GOBBLE in a Sentence

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For GOBBLE, below is one of 11 sentences:
Mrs. Haines glared at her out of goose-like eyes, gobbling, "Please, Mrs. Giles Oliver, do me the kindness to recognize my existence."

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 Meanings and Examples of GOBBLE
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gobble
 v.  swallow or eat greedily or hastily; gulp; utter a sound like a turkey cock
Classic Sentence:
1  Between the two evils, it was better to have Scarlett wear an afternoon dress at a morning barbecue than to have her gobble like a hog.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Mrs. Shimerda egged them on, chuckling while she gobbled her food.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
3  He seemed to shut his eyes and wait to be gobbled.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  He gobbled them up like a lion in the wilderness, flesh, bones, marrow, and entrails, without leaving anything uneaten.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IX
5  He violently chased fragments of fish about his plate with a knife and licked the knife after gobbling them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Mrs. Haines glared at her out of goose-like eyes, gobbling, "Please, Mrs. Giles Oliver, do me the kindness to recognize my existence."
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
7  He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
Example Sentence:
1  As I am still hungry, I gobble up a second sandwich.
2  I gobbled down my breakfast and ran out of the house.
3  I'm surprised that you didn't hear any gobbles from the roost.
4  The game, which features a puffy, pink protagonist who gobbles up enemies and spits them out as projectiles, became a hallmark of casual gameplay for the mobile game device well before the era of smartphone games.