Example Sentences

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“We, in this room, we are America,” insisted LaPierre, whose gulpy, throttled delivery belied the clench of a man in serious need of breathing lessons.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2016

Ms. Rainer’s first Academy Award was pretty much for a quivery, gulpy, sniffly — and, yes, sob-inducing — three-minute scene in “The Great Ziegfeld.”

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2015

He wanted to sound very cheerful, but the words came out sort of gulpy...

From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden

Starts rapid-fire blinking and doing that gulpy thing that makes his neck-bump look like a bouncing Ping-Pong ball.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

When this stratagem was impossible, she almost scalded herself in her gulpy haste.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel