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Example sentences for "gobbled"

Lexicographically close words:
goatskins; goatsucker; goatsuckers; gobbets; gobble; gobbler; gobblers; gobbles; gobbling; gobernador
  1. It was an ugly creature, and I was quite content it should be gobbled up out of sight.

  2. On the other a man hardly middle-aged, who gobbled away till the veins on his forehead stood out.

  3. He gobbled its contents, and Calhoun was nauseated.

  4. That man had gobbled the unspeakable because he could not help himself, but he was mad with rage and shame over what he had become.

  5. And so, as the elephant charged past, it smelt the delicious spices, and catching up the bread with its long trunk, gobbled it up without stopping an instant.

  6. Whereupon he tore open Drumikin and gobbled up Lambikin.

  7. Jackal; and with that he pounced on the Pea-hen, and gobbled her up.

  8. Whereupon Sir Buzz, with the speed of lightning, turned into a cat, which caught and gobbled up the mouse.

  9. A great many forage parties and straggling soldiers were gobbled up by the enemy during the raid; but, though I was out with men under my charge nearly every day, I never lost a man during the entire campaign, which lasted thirty days.

  10. The result was, the Captain and his men were surprised and all gobbled up without making any resistance, except the two that fell back, and they made a narrow escape.

  11. Hiram gobbled to the last mouthful, expressing his admiration as he ate, and the Cap'n glowed under the praise.

  12. So the Wolf lifted the latch, and the door flew open; and without a word he jumped on to the bed and gobbled up the poor old lady.

  13. Apparently a portion of the tale has fallen out, making a non-sens of its ending, which suggests that the kite gobbled up the two locusts at her ease, and left the falcon to himself.

  14. Whatever little fault they might find with the dishes, they sat at dinner a prodigiously long while; and it would really have made you ashamed to see how they swilled down the liquor and gobbled up the food.

  15. She gobbled up more cakes than any six people present; then came the supper and the sandwiches again, and the egg-flip and the horrible rum-punch.

  16. Indeed Ottilia had gobbled up all hers, and there were only my nine in the dish.

  17. We won't stop here to be gobbled up, at all events," cried Percy.

  18. The dogs eagerly gobbled up the portions they threw away.

  19. Ducarel, who is an ostrich of an antiquary, and can digest superannuated brickbats, should have gobbled them up.

  20. Then, barking little barks and growling little puppy growls, they fell upon the feast that their mother had brought, and gobbled and tussled while she looked on and enjoyed their joy.

  21. He shook his head, as he sat down and gobbled up his breakfast.

  22. And she gave the loaf to the dog, and he gobbled it up and licked his lips.

  23. Without a pause they rolled themselves down from the twigs, and hung there, so enticingly yellow, swinging to and fro in the gentle breath of the summer day, and waited to be gobbled up.

  24. He was enticed out of the safe refuge of his shell, and might easily be gobbled up.

  25. They were stout, and preferred being gobbled to parting with their money.

  26. He is like the dragon of Wantley, "And houses and churches To him are geese and turkeys;" so I don't wonder that he has gobbled her two cows.

  27. This courtesan, who had the tastes of a parrot and gobbled up radishes and burnt almonds and pecked at the meat upon her plate, had monthly table bills amounting to five thousand francs.

  28. In the meantime Nana, who averred that she was as hungry as a wolf, threw herself on the radishes and gobbled them up without bread.

  29. She caught him like a fly in the hand off a pane of glass, gobbled him with the customary facility of a pecking pullet.

  30. Lishka came into the room, gobbled up Budulinek's porridge, and ran away without giving him any ride at all.

  31. Holena took the strawberries and gobbled and gobbled and gobbled.

  32. She put her nose right into the bowl of peas and gobbled them all up!

  33. She just went over to the table and gobbled up the bowl of soup that Granny had put there for Budulinek's dinner and then she ran away.

  34. He gobbled it so fast that it stuck in his throat and choked him.

  35. If they had known as much about poison gas when they started it as they do now, they would have gobbled up the little piece of Belgium which they have never been able to win and thus secured a hold on the English Channel coast.

  36. It was clear, then, that Austria intended to use the assassination as a pretext to gobble up Servia in the same way that she had gobbled up Bosnia and Herzegovina six years before.

  37. So the witch gobbled her up, and when the last scrap had disappeared, she came to the second and asked: 'Where shall I begin on you, my fat bolster?

  38. The dog seized it ravenously, and ran with it to a dark corner where he gobbled it up in a very few minutes.

  39. So they got their plates and knives, Their children and their wives, And gobbled up the beetle on the broomstraw.

  40. Well, they ate and ate and ate, Gobbled at an awful rate Till I'm sure they soon weighed more Than double what they did before.

  41. But he jumped overboard--despising the chance of being gobbled up by a shark--and started to swim to his own ship.

  42. He will be gobbled up like Jonah by the whale.

  43. And the turkey cock, who had been born with spurs, and therefore thought himself an emperor, blew himself up like a ship in full sail, and bore straight down upon it; then he gobbled and grew quite red in the face.

  44. He is the same old rogue who gobbled up little Red Riding Hood's grandmother for lunch, and swallowed little Red Riding Hood for supper.

  45. You see, Old Man Coyote had found them and gobbled them up while Farmer Brown's boy was away.

  46. When he had gobbled up all the berries that rolled out, he thrust his nose into the pail to get all that were left in it.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gobbled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.