GOBBLE in a Sentence

Learn GOBBLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

11 example sentences for GOBBLE, such as:

1. He seemed to shut his eyes and wait to be gobbled.
2. As I am still hungry, I gobble up a second sandwich.
3. I gobbled down my breakfast and ran out of the house.
4. I'm surprised that you didn't hear any gobbles from the roost.
5. Mrs. Shimerda egged them on, chuckling while she gobbled her food.

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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 Mitchell
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.