Gulp

//ɡʌlp//

"Gulp" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Greta chugged the beer in one gulp.

He raised the glass to his lips and drained it at one gulp.

If only the physician wouldn’t eat his food in one gulp like that.

Tom drank the shot of tequila down in one gulp.

The girl drank down the milk in one gulp.

Gulp! The food is delicious, but I'm afraid of how expensive it's going to be.

He drank the beer in one gulp.

He drank it in one gulp.

The man grinned widely and paid the bill. He then drank all of the beer left in his glass in one gulp, while standing.

Tom drank the beer in one gulp.

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What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.

Little Stanislovas was also trembling, and all but too frightened to speak. "They — they sent me to tell you — " he said, with a gulp.

Indeed, the envisioned future should produce a bit of "the gulp factor" […], there should be an almost audible "gulp".

He does not swallow, but he gulps it down.

The man eyed Percy with a chilly eye. "Well," he said, "What's troublin you?" Percy gulped. The man's mere appearance was a sedative. "Er-nothing! […]"

I'd always been nervous-excited; this was nervous-terrified. When I finished puking, I sat down gulping air for a while, trying to pull myself together.

My heart was beating madly and I was gulping nervous energy.

"Honey, I know you want to go to their home next week, but there's one thing that keeps happening when we're together that really drives me away from social gatherings in general. (Oh, what is it … gulp.) Well, I'm not sure I can really explain it without offending you. (Gulp, gulp.) Do you really want to talk about it? (Yes.) […]"

I wonder: if it had not been for GCN, would I now be the one who settles for the semi-closeted, factionalized world that Bay Windows and its ilk define as Shangri-la? Perhaps. What is certain, however, is that you have never jettisoned concern fror anybody for the sake of popularity and (gulp) assimilationist marketability.

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