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Gobbled meaning

simple past and past participle of gobble

Using Gobbled

  • The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of gobble
  • In the example corpus, gobbled often appears in combinations such as: gobbled up, being gobbled, have gobbled.

Context around Gobbled

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Gobbled

  • In this selection, "gobbled" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, get, group and appropriately stand out and add context to how "gobbled" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and showerheads gobbled up to and being appropriately gobbled up by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "gobbled" sits close to words such as abbeys, abundances and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with gobbled

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

The U.K. has gobbled up Domino's price hikes. (10 words)

Instagram and Whatsapp were gobbled by Facebook and Snapchat was hobbled. (11 words)

Cerberus’ holding company, Freedom Group, gobbled up one gun manufacturer after another, notably Remington Arms. (15 words)

The fixtures in the pre-1988 homes were water hogs, each flush used anywhere from 3 to 6 gallons of water to do one’s business and showerheads gobbled up to 5 gallons per minute. (35 words)

A top NGO has vowed to protect Marsalforn valley as road-widening plans indicate 200 mature trees will be uprooted and 10,692 square metres of agricultural and other land will be gobbled up. (34 words)

And then on Tuesday night, Butz gobbled up 11 boards and 15 points while putting Central Michigan leading scorer David DiLeo in the doghouse with a dreadful 0-for-8 from beyond the arc. (34 words)

Example sentences (20)

Cerberus’ holding company, Freedom Group, gobbled up one gun manufacturer after another, notably Remington Arms.

I it when that happens, some of my notes not being appropriately gobbled up by the microphone and fed into the machine.

More than 60 percent of the high-end computer chips that the world depends upon come from Taiwan, and once the Chinese have gobbled up Taiwan they are not likely to stop there.

Now that all the turkey, stuffing and pie have been gobbled up, many people’s thoughts will shift toward holiday shopping.

The U.K. has gobbled up Domino's price hikes.

A top NGO has vowed to protect Marsalforn valley as road-widening plans indicate 200 mature trees will be uprooted and 10,692 square metres of agricultural and other land will be gobbled up.

At the latest auction of licences for green energy, including offshore windfarms, established Scandinavian players gobbled up 70 per cent of them.

His Texas history textbook described the Karankawas as long-extinct 7-foot cannibals who gobbled like turkeys.

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That’s not just a big slice of pie ripe for the taking — it’s a whole pie, with some 60 million pieces to be gobbled up.

The fixtures in the pre-1988 homes were water hogs, each flush used anywhere from 3 to 6 gallons of water to do one’s business and showerheads gobbled up to 5 gallons per minute.

They get gobbled up quickly and there's nothing worse when you're trying to plan a wedding than falling in love with a vendor only to find that they aren't available.

Two large forest fires broke out on Sunday and gobbled up 24 acres of woodland, houses and cars in Attica, not far from Athens.

A hesitant Boimler attempts the same thing, only to get gobbled up by the creature.

China, however, became India’s neighbor only in 1951 after Mao Zedong gobbled up the traditional buffer Tibet.

Instagram and Whatsapp were gobbled by Facebook and Snapchat was hobbled.

And then on Tuesday night, Butz gobbled up 11 boards and 15 points while putting Central Michigan leading scorer David DiLeo in the doghouse with a dreadful 0-for-8 from beyond the arc.

Suri looked imperious in his brief stay at the crease but the same couldn’t be said of his dismissal, with his lazy chip towards mid-on being gobbled up comfortably by Mohammad Nadeem.

Taking into account the size of the Ministerial grouping, it is not hard to see the substantial sums being gobbled up by this seemingly favoured grouping.

These deals are only available today, so get your order in before they’re all gobbled up.

The Soviets would close the eastern jaws on September 17 until Poland was gobbled up.

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Common combinations with gobbled

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "gobbled" in a sentence?
An example: "Cerberus’ holding company, Freedom Group, gobbled up one gun manufacturer after another, notably Remington Arms." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "gobbled" from authentic English texts.
What does "gobbled" mean?
Gobbled means: simple past and past participle of gobble
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