Gulped

I gulped down liquid, which had the consistency of cider.

It was there that he celebrated his recent birthday – its cold muddy moments captured in selfies – as he gulped down morsels of pizza and cake between incoming mortar rounds.

When a certain kind of water beetle finds itself gulped down by a frog, it runs for its life.

Recall that while reading his inauguration speech on May 29, 2024, the President announced the end of the subsidy regime, bringing an end to a controversial policy that had gulped billions of dollars over the years.

The reception pupil had been bowling with a friend when the pair gulped a small strawberry-flavoured slushy.

The situation could worsen Nigeria’s poverty rate, thus negating the federal government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIPs), which have so far gulped billions of naira.

And I could still taste, from memory, those dusty gray pieces of shredded newspaper, reeking of fireproof chemical treatment, and inevitably gulped into my throat as I leaped across stage.

Ebibai also said recurrent and capital payments gulped a total of N6.4 billion.

She threw her head back and gulped the drink, scrunching her face as the harsh effects burned down her throat.

Statistics obtained from the DMO in Abuja on Thursday showed that commercial loans gulped the largest amount spent on external debt servicing in the first quarter of the year.

Their seven colleagues cheerfully gulped down the SCHEELS Kool-Aid, signing on to a 25-year, $16 million tax incentive.

This, too, is gulped down with the gusto of Jim Jones’ Kool Aid.

Breakfast comes in many forms, but regardless of whether it is something to be gulped down on the go or luxuriated over with a morning newspaper (or the online equivalent), it can be a healthy breakfast.

Evidently he had gulped down the mushrooms hoping not to taste them and become overcome with nausea.

Gulped, swallowed or chewed, still worth a king's ransom.

The county however says another Sh1.2 billion has been budgeted for this purpose, but the committee led by chairman Victor Munyaka has read mischief in the process that has so far gulped Sh50 million.

These tequilas are usually sipped from a snifter glass rather than a shot glass, and savoured instead of quickly gulped.