gobble
verb (used with object)
to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
gobbles
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pluralof gobble.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The answer, for that sample, was: mostly Desmodesmus, a green algae that gobbles up phosphorus and nitrogen.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
Lately, she’s making a feast of roles that all remind me of that old sitcom episode in which Lucille Ball gobbles chocolates on a conveyor belt.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Meanwhile, the consumer-electronics world faces an acute memory-chip shortage, as AI-infrastructure demand gobbles up semiconductor supplies and thus threatens to drive up the price of things like smartphones and laptops.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 25, 2026
The idea is to ensure XTX can keep training its models cheaply even as the AI boom gobbles up ever more data-center capacity worldwide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
My brain gobbles up the new information around me, as if each new thing it sees will help me forget an old thing in the theater.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
