Wondering how to use Gullet in a sentence? Below are 9 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as esophagus or oesophagus.
Gullet meaning
- The throat or esophagus.
- The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
- The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
Synonyms of Gullet
Using Gullet
- The main meaning on this page is: The throat or esophagus. | The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested. | The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
- Useful related words include: esophagus, oesophagus, gorge, passage.
- In the example corpus, gullet often appears in combinations such as: his gullet.
Context around Gullet
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gullet
- In this selection, "gullet" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, says stand out and add context to how "gullet" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include down our gullet and down your gullet. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gullet" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gullet
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Oscar began to feel the crust from Artichokes travel up his gullet. (12 words)
This gullet would not permit the passage of a man's arm". (12 words)
The pianist raised the pitcher to his mouth; he tilted his head, opened his gullet. (15 words)
With only one episode to go, though, the season could still manage to fit in an important moment in the Dance of the Dragons known as the Battle of the Gullet. (31 words)
Bacteria synthesize vitamins in our gut, convert the things we eat into useful sugars and polysaccharides, and go to war on alien microbes that slip down our gullet. (28 words)
OED and most etymological dictionaries give it a more circuitous origin similar to gullet; from O.Fr. goulet, dim. of goule, "throat, neck," from L. gula "throat,". (27 words)
Example sentences (9)
There isn't much to do on a road trip besides look out the window and push snacks down your gullet.
Bacteria synthesize vitamins in our gut, convert the things we eat into useful sugars and polysaccharides, and go to war on alien microbes that slip down our gullet.
With only one episode to go, though, the season could still manage to fit in an important moment in the Dance of the Dragons known as the Battle of the Gullet.
Oscar began to feel the crust from Artichokes travel up his gullet.
Gullet says the construction of the houses has already commenced in Garissa, Tana River and Kilifi counties.
The pianist raised the pitcher to his mouth; he tilted his head, opened his gullet.
OED and most etymological dictionaries give it a more circuitous origin similar to gullet; from O.Fr. goulet, dim. of goule, "throat, neck," from L. gula "throat,".
The tightening of the line would fix it cross-wise in the quarry's stomach or gullet and so the capture would be assured.
This gullet would not permit the passage of a man's arm".
Common combinations with gullet
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: