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eat a large amount of food quickly
The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake
How To Use gobble up In A Sentence
- That was before the financial sector metastasized to gobble up 40% of the nation's profits, and before the growth of derivatives and similar transactions made the disconnect between "real world" economic activity and non-reality-based financial dealings so extreme. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Automated Greed Factories: How Soulless Banking Is Crushing the Economy
- And we all know why: because the market is full of arbitrageurs who gobble up any free lunch the instant it hits the table and don't leave a scrap behind. Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- When the acorns started to drop I was inclined to clear them up but now the job is being done, rather more effectively, by a small murder of crows which appears each morning to gobble up the overnight harvest.
- They'd gobble up the picquet there, and be over the Natal border by sundown; it behoved Flashy to bear away north, and try to cross the river well beyond the reach of the impis. Watershed
- Should this movie gobble up your post dinner dinero?
- Scientists now know that many birds with eyesight sufficiently keen to discern striped patterns - phoebes, swallows and martins among them - gobble up bees and wasps with apparent relish.
- You can see cities and towns in San Francisco's Bay Area gobble up undeveloped land and merge, or you can watch Washington, D.C., spread far beyond the beltway and fuse with Baltimore.
- A similar assault can be observed in real estate as companies such as Century 21 gobble up local real estate agencies.
- They'd gobble up the picquet there, and be over the Natal border by sundown; it behoved Flashy to bear away north, and try to cross the river well beyond the reach of the impis. Watershed
- A similar assault can be observed in real estate as companies such as Century 21 gobble up local real estate agencies.