Example Sentences

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Gulping a bottle of water to calm the fury inside him, Tyronn Lue waited before speaking at a postgame dais, as visibly upset as the coach had appeared since becoming the Clippers coach in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2022

Gulping from a spout piping cool water from the wall, one in the group hollered: “It’s melted glaciers, girls!”

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021

Gulping the last of it at breakfast, we headed down the trail and found we’d stopped just a quarter mile from our bulging jerry cans.

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2015

Gulping down mounting returns, network computers giddily upped the odds on Kennedy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gulping back a few dry sobs, Sefia uncurled, aching, from the floor and put her palms to the stone walls.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee