GULP in a Sentence
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41 example sentences for GULP, such as:
1. She came up gulping for air.
2. I drank the staff off in one gulp.
3. She gulped once and found her voice.
4. He gulped down the remainder of his coffee.
5. She took a large gulp of wine from the bottle.
2. I drank the staff off in one gulp.
3. She gulped once and found her voice.
4. He gulped down the remainder of his coffee.
5. She took a large gulp of wine from the bottle.
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Meanings and Examples of GULP
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gulp
v. to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught
n. a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 "Together, ma'am," and Ben gulped down half of his new mug at one gulp.
2 A hungry wolf sprang out, and swallowed up the whole stomach, with Tom in it, at one gulp, and ran away.
3 Caderousse raised his glass to his mouth with unsteady hand, and swallowed the contents at a gulp.
4 The abbe, with a shaking hand, seized a glass of water that was standing by him half-full, swallowed it at one gulp, and then resumed his seat, with red eyes and pale cheeks.
5 He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
6 The host smiled, disappeared, and shortly afterwards returned with a steaming jorum: of which, the first gulp brought the water into Mr. Bumble's eyes.
7 The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
8 The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed.
9 "It would be better to have a son even if he did get killed than to never have one," said Melanie and gulped.
10 Scarlett gulped in silence, remembering that wherever two or more matrons were gathered together, in these trying days, they whispered of such happenings, always in Virginia or Tennessee or Lousiana, never close to home.
11 He ate silently the spoonfuls she pushed into his mouth and washed them down with noisily gulped water.
12 Gerald raised it, obedient as a child, and gulped noisily.
13 She gulped once and found her voice.
14 She gulped and choked and began coughing but he pushed it to her mouth again.
15 But the merriment of the Fontaine boys, a chilling merriment that night, was in his little dancing eyes as he gulped down the whisky she brought him.
Example Sentence:
1 He filled a cup with cold water and drank it down in one gulp.
2 She took a large gulp of wine from the bottle.
3 I drank the staff off in one gulp.
4 He did gulp for help after choking on a big piece of meat.
5 Late for work again, she gulped down a cup of milk, with no time for anything to eat.
6 He gulped down the remainder of his coffee.
7 She came up gulping for air.