as in devoured
to swallow or eat greedily
gobbled the sandwiches like they hadn't eaten for days
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Recent Examples of gobbled
There are now as many games as there are phones; what used to be a feast that everyone devoured together has been divvied up into a gazillion little snacks gobbled down willy-nilly.
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Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
That quibble aside, sports all but gobbled up the entire chart, as 95 of the items on the list were devoted to football, baseball, basketball, horseracing and boxing.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Jan. 2026
After the Thanksgiving leftovers are gobbled and the Christmas trees come down, many turn their attention to the new year, and may celebrate by making resolutions or watching the Times Square ball drop.
—Ayana Archie, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
If it's not all gobbled up in one supper, this dish freezes well and makes for delicious leftovers.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2025
These stories are fed to the Street and gobbled up by the financial media.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2025
Now off the hook, previous suspects have included strange types of exploding stars (supernovas) and interstellar gas being gobbled up by black holes.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Large developments gobbled up some of these historic structures.
—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Dec. 2025
The Norwegian gladly gobbled up another brace — his 13th and 14th league goals of the season — to send City into second, six points behind Arsenal.
—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobbled
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But in the theatrical cut, Riley briefly survives the drop before being devoured by Tarion’s paw soldiers, the Hellhounds.—
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Angelo’s is the lunch stop and Strowman devoured ribs, brisket and more smoked meats, restaurant owner Jason George told the Star-Telegram.—
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It is inhaled in powder form, and typically administered using an inhaler device twice a day for five days.—
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Outside was given an exclusive first viewing of the special, in which host Cecilia Vega hikes to Base Camp, 17,600 feet, where the air is so thin that every breath feels like it’s inhaled through a straw.—
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So the 46,000 at the Stadium of Light gulped again.—
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“Gobbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbled. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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