Gobbled

The tramp gobbled down the Thanksgiving dinner served at the church.

Mary was so hungry, she gobbled up the pie in merely a few bites!

You have gobbled up all the biscuits!

My mom cooked coconut taro root with fried salami; I gobbled it down and I devoured the fried salami as well with pleasure.

Tom gobbled down the food.

He gobbled down the herring salad.

Tom gobbled up everything I had stashed away.

Rapid urbanization in the Metidja Plain has gobbled up the region's fertile lands.

If Ziri goes there, he will be gobbled up by giant monsters.

Born in the time of The Beatles, my generation in the Philippines was the product of more nationalism and less Americanization than what my parents experienced, born during the Swing and Big Band music era. It was in 1937 that the Philippine government adopted Tagalog, an Austronesian language, as the basis of the national language. Filipinos born during the time of "King of Pop" Michael Jackson had much more Tagalog indoctrination, and television shows, anime, and cinema became more Tagalog. Later Filipinos born during the reign of Lady Gaga became more exposed to the Internet, where English was ubiquitous. With floodgates open, the archipelagic nation once again became inundated with the colonial language. It still seemed though that the reading habit was not for the majority because most books there were in English, which the elite gobbled up. The Philippines was a country of about 200 native Austronesian languages, whose ancient origin was Taiwan. What school children learned was Tagalog (alias Filipino) and English, but Taglish, the patois of code-switching between the two languages, was the de facto oral-aural lingua franca in the islands. English was the main written language.