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Example sentences for "gulps"

Lexicographically close words:
gulp; gulped; gulph; gulphs; gulping; guls; gum; gumbo; gumma; gummata
  1. Between the slowly portioned spoonfuls he drank great gulps of scalding tea.

  2. MacFarlane gasped for air, and sucked in great gulps of powdery snow that bit into his lungs and seared his throat with their stinging cold.

  3. He drank the tea in great gulps and extended his cup for more.

  4. Moved beyond control by the little gulps and gasps of her breathing, he stepped forward and put his hands on her shoulders.

  5. There was a puppy belonging to one of the neighbours who sometimes lumbered over and stole James's milk, disposing of it in greedy gulps while its rightful proprietor looked on with piteous helplessness.

  6. Mr Pickering relit the stump of his cigar defiantly and smoked in long gulps for a while.

  7. He emerged to the waist of the whaler and stood breathing great gulps of Arctic-tinged air which sent the wine of living through his veins.

  8. He laid his cap on the table and opened his pea-jacket, breathing with giant gulps of suppressed emotion.

  9. He swallowed all that I put to his lips, just as a fat gander gulps pellets; his eyes were covered with mist.

  10. Nicholas was there, inhaling air, not in greedy gulps and gasps, like a man who has had no practice, but leisurely encouraging his lungs with little doses, as a doctor gives soup to a starved boat crew.

  11. A sudden desire had seized him to fly back to the hills, wreathed in mist though they might be; to struggle on his way through the blinding rain, to drink down long gulps of his own purer, less civilized atmosphere.

  12. His first overwhelming desire had been simply to escape from that enervating and perfervid atmosphere, to feel the morning air cool upon his forehead, to drink in great gulps of the fresh, windy sweetness.

  13. Bayard gulps once or twice and looks sort of dazed.

  14. A hint of these last inhered in a remark that Bender slid in between two gulps of coffee.

  15. It would be strange if she should, with the love novels she continues to devour, and the "Court Intelligence" she gulps down, keeping alive the hallucination that she is still a belle at Bath and Cheltenham.

  16. Lewin Murdock, in a tone of such bitterness, that, as if to drown it, he plucks the pipe out of his mouth, and gulps down the last drop in the glass.

  17. It was what the farmers call hard cider, and Josh verily feared his eyes would start out of his head while he was drinking it, but after several desperate gulps he succeeded in draining the mug.

  18. It is astonishing how gravely the Colonel gulps down every crude lump of monstrous fudge the papers contain.

  19. He touches the theatre a great deal, literature a little, and music most of all; and he gulps down greedily all he touches.

  20. My ears drank in the sound as an Arab parched with desert sand falls on his dried belly and gulps in mouthfuls of crystal water.

  21. The man who gulps down a glass of old wine without first inhaling its oenanthic and feasting his eyes upon its ruddy splendors, is simply a sot.

  22. Fortunately for himself and for the happiness of our homes, the Swallow gulps them all down indiscriminately, together with a host of other insects that perform aerial ballets.

  23. As much as a starving Wolf would have of daintily dissecting his Sheep, when he tears at her gluttonously, rends her into shreds and gulps them down.

  24. He cares not what it be, waits for no ceremony, tips the decanter, gulps his glass, and deliberately takes a seat.

  25. I hold no controversies with prison-keepers (again he gulps his brandy) or their subs; being a servant of the state, I order you to give that wench the extent of the law.

  26. Smith opened the bottle, and after taking several large gulps (despite the assumed bravado he was nervous, and uncertain how to proceed) passed it to Kalus, who was much more cautious.

  27. In large, painful gulps he drained most of a second bottle, letting the wine take the place of blood in his veins.

  28. How deliciously refreshing were the two or three great gulps that he swallowed.


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