Example Sentences

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The only one who speaks is the other Addie, and her voice is gulping and hoarse, as though she were on her deathbed, drawing her final breath.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 22, 2019

The closest I can get to taking a breath of freedom is gulping the building’s filtered, recirculated air.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2015

And there may never be, because, along with its punishment, S.M.U. is gulping down a strong dose of preventive medicine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Otto preferred his mashed into milk and I had mine as is, gulping down three cinnamon-flavored bars in as many minutes.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Somewhere near me a woman is gulping out sobs.

From Through Russia by Hogarth, C. J.