gobbled; gobbling
ˈgä-b(ə-)liŋ 
1
: to swallow or eat greedily
2
: to take eagerly : grab
—usually used with up
3
: to read rapidly or greedily
—usually used with up
gobbled; gobbling
ˈgä-b(ə-)liŋ
1
: to make the natural guttural noise of a male turkey
2
: to make a sound resembling the gobble of a turkey
gobble
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Examples of gobble in a Sentence
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Maddie Stone / Grist, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
Once again our heroine is a steely, scrappy young woman who has a single vice — Weaving’s Grace had a penchant for cigarettes; Barrera’s Joey gobbles hard candy.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2024
Children, including some very young, have accidentally gobbled them up, leading to panicked calls to poison control centers.
—Ashley Okwuosa, The Examination; Amy Yurkanin, Al.com; John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
Cryptojacking can result in financial losses for cloud providers as fraudsters gobble up data to mine cryptocurrency, ignoring mounting unpaid subscription fees in the process.
—John Kell, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
Once again, our heroine is a steely, scrappy young woman who has a single vice — Weaving’s Grace had a penchant for cigarettes; Barrera’s Joey gobbles hard candy.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
Some people take one sample and others gobble three or four.
—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
Companies have furiously gobbled up its very expensive AI chips in their race to develop new generative artificial intelligence technologies.
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
Everyone including the grocery store, your apps and the manufacturer of your car are gobbling information to profit from details of your life.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
Markian Hawryluk, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
Each one shows different angles of a simulated Will Smith (at one point, even two Will Smiths) ravenously gobbling up spaghetti.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
Property owners like Gertsch are concerned that such a bypass would gobble up some of the last agricultural land and open space left in the area and dramatically change the valley.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
But that understates the scale of the change, because the European Central Bank will no longer gobble up huge quantities of bonds through quantitative easing.
—WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
In multiple notes to investors, the analysts forecasted that several media companies—including Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, YouTube parent Alphabet, TikTok, Snap, and Pinterest—would gobble up some Twitter’s ad revenue, which totaled $4.5 billion in 2021.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2022
With the National Turkey Federation pledging that there are plenty of turkeys to gobble up during this year's celebration -- when more Americans will gather than in 2020 -- Biden stuck to tradition, sparing two turkeys from the dinner table this year.
—Molly Nagle, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2021
In the wild, the birds will gobble up anything from small mammals to woodpeckers to fish and amphibians using their excellent eyesight and sharp hearing to silently swoop down on their prey.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
The new apartments will gobble up the equivalent of more than a decade of downtown office leasing.
—Dallas News, 8 July 2022
Verb
The lithium-ion batteries inside electric vehicles gobble up huge amounts of the stuff — over 300,000 metric tons in 2022.
—Maddie Stone / Grist, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
Once again our heroine is a steely, scrappy young woman who has a single vice — Weaving’s Grace had a penchant for cigarettes; Barrera’s Joey gobbles hard candy.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2024
Children, including some very young, have accidentally gobbled them up, leading to panicked calls to poison control centers.
—Ashley Okwuosa, The Examination; Amy Yurkanin, Al.com; John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
Cryptojacking can result in financial losses for cloud providers as fraudsters gobble up data to mine cryptocurrency, ignoring mounting unpaid subscription fees in the process.
—John Kell, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
Once again, our heroine is a steely, scrappy young woman who has a single vice — Weaving’s Grace had a penchant for cigarettes; Barrera’s Joey gobbles hard candy.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
Some people take one sample and others gobble three or four.
—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
Companies have furiously gobbled up its very expensive AI chips in their race to develop new generative artificial intelligence technologies.
—Laura Bratton, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
Everyone including the grocery store, your apps and the manufacturer of your car are gobbling information to profit from details of your life.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
Verb
Those economic forces have driven consolidation, as hospital systems gobble up physician clinics.
—Markian Hawryluk, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
Each one shows different angles of a simulated Will Smith (at one point, even two Will Smiths) ravenously gobbling up spaghetti.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
Property owners like Gertsch are concerned that such a bypass would gobble up some of the last agricultural land and open space left in the area and dramatically change the valley.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
But that understates the scale of the change, because the European Central Bank will no longer gobble up huge quantities of bonds through quantitative easing.
—WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
In multiple notes to investors, the analysts forecasted that several media companies—including Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, YouTube parent Alphabet, TikTok, Snap, and Pinterest—would gobble up some Twitter’s ad revenue, which totaled $4.5 billion in 2021.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2022
With the National Turkey Federation pledging that there are plenty of turkeys to gobble up during this year's celebration -- when more Americans will gather than in 2020 -- Biden stuck to tradition, sparing two turkeys from the dinner table this year.
—Molly Nagle, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2021
In the wild, the birds will gobble up anything from small mammals to woodpeckers to fish and amphibians using their excellent eyesight and sharp hearing to silently swoop down on their prey.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
The new apartments will gobble up the equivalent of more than a decade of downtown office leasing.
—Dallas News, 8 July 2022
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