Gobble is an English word with synonyms like cry or bolt. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gobble in a sentence
Related words
Gobble meaning
To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
Using Gobble
- The main meaning on this page is: To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
- Useful related words include: cry, bolt, eat, gobble up.
- In the example corpus, gobble often appears in combinations such as: gobble up, to gobble, gobble them.
Context around Gobble
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gobble
- In this selection, "gobble" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, run, calmly, giants, down, wobble and popcorn stand out and add context to how "gobble" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include apple to gobble up market and bots who gobble up tickets. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gobble" sits close to words such as aayog, aghast and agitate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gobble
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Don’t build more, just so more rich investors can gobble them up. (13 words)
Then Sooty would “gobble up” the lot, and she would receive $1,150 for dog-sitting. (16 words)
Bondoc said Colliers sees vacancy to decline in 2023 as manufacturing investments materialize and gobble up space. (17 words)
And, during the breeding season, the toms puff up their bodies, drop their back feathers to create a cool, dragging sound, strut their stuff, show off their snood and gobble in unison for female turkeys to come and watch the show. (41 words)
Bird feeder spillage, unsecured trash and fruit or nut-bearing trees are all common food sources in urban areas that could make a flock — also known as a gang, a gobble, or a posse — comfortable with putting down roots. (39 words)
All hell broke loose on the New York Stock Exchange early Monday morning as traders slammed shares of Berkshire Hathaway, opting instead to gobble up GameStop calls as returned to the markets with a vengeance. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Although rivals’ weaknesses might be an opportunity for Apple to gobble up market share, it is still expected to sell relatively few units of its headset.
AMD’s graphics card holds a crucial memory advantage over its rival as well, in an age when games are starting to gobble down ever-increasing amounts of RAM.
As cows (or horses) slowly trudge through fields of grass, they frighten well-hidden insects into evasive maneuvers and the cattle egrets take that opportunity to gobble them up.
A Thanksgiving dinner this year will gobble up less of your wallet, thanks in large part to lower turkey prices.
Bondoc said Colliers sees vacancy to decline in 2023 as manufacturing investments materialize and gobble up space.
Don’t build more, just so more rich investors can gobble them up.
Melissa Martin from Nashville dressed as a turkey runs during the 46th annual Turkey Day Run & Gobble Wobble at Marion Square on the morning of Thursday, November 23rd, 2023.
Nor does he laud his executives or his 22,000 employees or his customers, who will gobble up more than $3 billion worth of crafts products from him this year.
The Giants are the most blitz-heavy team in the NFL, which leads to opportunities for tight ends to gobble up catches and yards.
Then Sooty would “gobble up” the lot, and she would receive $1,150 for dog-sitting.
When my children and I sat outside their preschool, I could see her run in the dog door to gobble up treats when we threw them at her.
All hell broke loose on the New York Stock Exchange early Monday morning as traders slammed shares of Berkshire Hathaway, opting instead to gobble up GameStop calls as returned to the markets with a vengeance.
And, during the breeding season, the toms puff up their bodies, drop their back feathers to create a cool, dragging sound, strut their stuff, show off their snood and gobble in unison for female turkeys to come and watch the show.
Check back in with us on bonuses soon, because Biglaw associates are looking forward to their bank accounts being stuffed like the Thanksgiving turkeys they’ll gobble down at the end of next month.
The 'Caps stormed into the second half with Adekugbe firing a shot on Minnesota's net in the 50th minute, only to see St. Clair calmly gobble up the ball.
Then when the tech giants gobble up all the advertising that used to fund these news outlets, there’s no one to put a stop to it.
The suggestion is meant to address buyers and bots who gobble up tickets to shows when they first go on sale but later sell them for several times the price.
Bird feeder spillage, unsecured trash and fruit or nut-bearing trees are all common food sources in urban areas that could make a flock — also known as a gang, a gobble, or a posse — comfortable with putting down roots.
But for viewers who were looking forward to a particular summer blockbuster, these five similar films will hold you over until it's safe to gobble popcorn in front of the big screen again.
Experts, however, are concerned over the effort, noting that we lack data on whether the drug actually works on coronaviruses and that it could gobble up resources from other patients who need the medication.
Common combinations with gobble
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gobble up 22×
- to gobble 13×
- gobble them 4×
- and gobble 4×
- gobble down 3×
- will gobble 3×
- would gobble 3×
- can gobble 2×
- gobble wobble 2×