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In fact, I was gulping some of the Sailing Goat’s excellent clam chowder when my innkeepers’ 22-foot boat puttered up to the dock.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Her dad, Jim, emerges a few seconds later, and when I ask whether he cried, he gestures silently to his throat, and says he was gulping to hold back the tears.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2013

At noon we slid down a vertiginous slope to a peasant hut, and just as I was gulping sour milk from a wooden bowl, a rifle shot rang out outside.

From Time Magazine Archive

Would the Legion now follow in the footsteps of the G. A. R., which by 1893 was gulping one-third of the U. S. Treasury's gross revenues?

From Time Magazine Archive

I broke into a sprint, running so fast that my mouth and throat dried out from the air I was gulping.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo