as in devoured
to swallow or eat greedily
gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days
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Recent Examples of gobbled
My reluctant meat eaters gobbled it down.
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Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025
The image represents a 70-times zoom-in on the original mosaic, demonstrating why so much data is gobbled up in these Euclid images.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Spoelstra, headed to the Basketball Hall of Fame someday, would be gobbled up by half the teams in the league if available.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago and has gobbled up big chunks of the Donbas region that had been controlled by pro-Kremlin separatists since 2014.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
Once the toxin took effect, males mounted the females and copulated for between 40 and 75 minutes, without the risk of being gobbled up.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
But Cleveland's houses are getting gobbled up 16 days quicker than the national average.
—Sam Allard, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
And then there was the gobbler, a big one that came up behind him and never gobbled.
—Larry Dablemont, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
In December and January, Pebbles gobbled down seven doses of the drug, which had been secreted inside dead mice and quail.
—Emily Elconin, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025
The image represents a 70-times zoom-in on the original mosaic, demonstrating why so much data is gobbled up in these Euclid images.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Spoelstra, headed to the Basketball Hall of Fame someday, would be gobbled up by half the teams in the league if available.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago and has gobbled up big chunks of the Donbas region that had been controlled by pro-Kremlin separatists since 2014.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
Once the toxin took effect, males mounted the females and copulated for between 40 and 75 minutes, without the risk of being gobbled up.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
But Cleveland's houses are getting gobbled up 16 days quicker than the national average.
—Sam Allard, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
And then there was the gobbler, a big one that came up behind him and never gobbled.
—Larry Dablemont, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
In December and January, Pebbles gobbled down seven doses of the drug, which had been secreted inside dead mice and quail.
—Emily Elconin, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Gobbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbled. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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