(v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
(v. t.) To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
(v. i.) To eat greedily.
(v. i.) To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
(n.) A noise made in the throat.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
(2) At a time when British brands such as Weetabix are being gobbled up by Chinese companies, a growing number of UK businesses hope to grab their own slice of the booming Chinese grocery market.
(3) Rafa holds too after his opponent plops a forehand short and Nadal gobbles the chance.
(4) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
(5) Many landowners have been in financial limbo for years as the authority weighs different paths, leaving farmers wary of planting crops or buying new equipment in case their land gets gobbled up.
(6) Deep thought That sense of responsibility was put on show earlier this year when Cadbury turned Dairy Milk into a Fairtrade product and so transforming gobbling down a big bar of the purple stuff into snacking with a social conscience.
(7) The competition regulator is examining whether gobbling up one of Poundland’s few single-price rivals will give the retailer more freedom to reduce the offers shoppers get for their £1 – like those two-for-a-pound Aloe Vera drinks.
(8) Arsenal came to resemble the chicken feed from the lower reaches of the Bundesliga that Bayern routinely gobble up, although there is no shame in being beaten by them – and badly at that.
(9) But the new research does suggest that the reasons for long-term endemic joblessness are much more complicated than the story crafted by government and eagerly gobbled up by irresponsible programme makers and scrounger-seeking tabloids.
(10) Big two-litre engine, short slope, oh dear: it took an enormous high-revving, fuel-gobbling wheelspin to heave the S-Max up the hill.
(11) Saints 0-3 Seahawks, 10:19, 1st quarter Still a strong defensive stand for the Saints, who gobble up a pair of Lynch runs before dragging down receiver Doug Baldwin after a short gain on third-and-nine.
(12) 9.28pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st Yadier Molina hits a ball that seems likely to sneak into the outfield but Nick Punto, in the game only because Hanley Ramirez is hurt, gobbles it up to make the third out of the inning and keep the Cardinals off the board.
(13) The man is a picture of confidence, gobbling up Pedroia's roller to shortstop.
(14) Instead of savouring, we gobble – not just words, but everything.
(15) One has to admire Hilary's ferocity, much like Muldoon in Jurassic Park really has to admire the escaped raptor's speed before it gobbles him as a pre-lunch amuse-bouche.
(16) Jones, who admitted to eating Weetabix for breakfast every other day – alternating with porridge – said he had "no problem" with China gobbling up great British brands, but just wished that they would be "similarly open to British investment in China".
(17) By the end of this process, Americans had gobbled up more than 85 per cent of Chile's hard-currency earning industries.
(18) Fledgling publicist Max persuaded Kelvin MacKenzie, the then Sun editor, to run a story about how Starr put his friend Lea La Salle's hamster, Supersonic, between two pieces of bread and gobbled it up.
(19) Snake, obviously Sure, now the greatest Electronic Arts and Rockstar games are available at the tap of an app, gobbling up phone space and hours of time.
(20) B efore I met her I’d never really had a salad,” Callum Wilson says, thinking back to the moment that accelerated his development from a promising but fragile youngster into the lean and muscular striker who is gobbling up chances for Bournemouth in the same way he once devoured fast food.
Premolar
Definition:
(a.) Situated in front of the molar teeth.
(n.) An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar. See Tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maxillary and mandibular incisors and premolars of three rhesus monkeys were used.
(2) Erosion was observed on all teeth, but was commonest on the upper incisors, canines and premolars, and severest on palatal surfaces.
(3) Sound (n = 28) and carious (n = 123) approximal surfaces of extracted premolars and molars were radiographed.
(4) Four weeks after replantation, a more than threefold increase in PBF was measured in premolars with two roots, while PBF in premolars with one root and incisors was consistently reduced to an average of 40% of the controls.
(5) Molarization and premolarization of anterior teeth have never been reported before.
(6) The mandible does tend to rotate in a counterclockwise manner following enucleation of four first premolars without appliance therapy.
(7) Eight cases were studied separately, since three showed bilateral congenital absence of the second premolar, three showed unilateral congenital absence of the second premolar on the affected side, and two had the first permanent molar extracted.
(8) A "sweep" bend was incorporated to avoid unwanted side effects at the second premolar.
(9) Furthermore, agenesis of incisors, canines and premolars ranges from 0.4% in controls to 1.3% in propositi having reduced ULI and 5.0% in propositi with two missing ULI.
(10) The aberrant gland appeared on a panoramic radiograph as a radiolucency judged to be a periapical lesion on the right mandibular second premolar.
(11) All premolars were extracted after 1 calendar month.
(12) The purpose of the present radiologic study was to establish prevalence and distribution of pulp stones in mandibular premolars and molars in skulls of Norwegian Samis.
(13) One hundred and eighty seven mandibular premolars taken from a Turkish population were examined in this study.
(14) Forty molar and premolar teeth had non-retentive cavities prepared and restored with amalgam using (1) copal varnish (control), (2) a pin, (3) Amalgambond or (4) Panavia-Ex.
(15) Bone biopsies should be taken in either the premolar or the molar region of mandibular bodies.
(16) An unusual case of Stafne's bone cavity which presented in the canine-premolar region of the mandible is presented.
(17) Spaces needing prosthetic closure are transferred to more posterior regions of the dental arch, usually in the premolar region.
(18) In a second series of analyses, the mean lead concentrations of both dental hard tissues of premolars and permanent molars of young individuals from Strasbourg, rural Alsace, and Mexico City were compared.
(19) Autotransplantation of mandibular first premolars to the incisor region is suggested as an approach in selected cases.
(20) The samples were collected from both an intact fissure and a fissure with brown-stained defective enamel surface of the premolars of the lower jaw.