Example Sentences

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When Farrell singled out Mack Hansen for praise after the Western Force game last weekend, Freeman might have gulped hard.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

Even an exceptional teenager might have gulped at being asked to start his career in England by subduing an attack that had just fired seven goals past the champions.

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2020

Had I been told the fizz was $40 a stem, I would have gulped and declined rather than gulped twice.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2015

Yet it’s not just courts that have gulped at overruling the executive’s presumptions of power.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2015

Afterwards we agreed very much; and, if he had stayed in office there, I might have gulped, though with difficulty, the rejection of my advice here.

From Lady John Russell by