Example Sentences

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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 stock has soared as it expands its nearly 3,000-location footprint, gobbles up market share, and delivers some of the most consistent performance in retail.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

Joe Six Stock gobbles up Beyond Meat, Palantir and everything AI because everyone else is buying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

When an unsuspecting mountain lion or owl gobbles a dead or sick rat — or another animal that ate a tainted rat — the toxic substance can be passed on.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2024

He gobbles down the treat, never suspecting a pill is hidden inside it.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass