verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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Then it was usually delicatessen, a filled roll or some cheese or fruit, anything that could be gobbled up quickly.
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It gobbled up still untold millions of dollars.
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She hadn't realised how quickly the stock had been gobbled up by the hungry flames.
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But in convention season, Mondays and Tuesdays can get gobbled up quickly.
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Not that it stopped her from gobbling up every cultural titbit dropped before her.
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None the less, several very successful businessmen are convinced that the public will gobble up interactive services if they are made available.
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Plenty of small operators remain to be gobbled up by big ones able to meet the capital and research costs now required.
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Cook only partially reported what Marana officials did when they gobbled up 1, 200 acres at Tangerine and Thornydale roads.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Housing costs gobble up almost half of our budget.
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We gobbled up all of the cake in one evening.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For three mornings I watched her gobble eggs.
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I heard wild turkeys gobbling and saw white-tailed deer.
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Not that it stopped her from gobbling up every cultural titbit dropped before her.
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Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers.
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The big fish, seeing the little one there, glides into the basket to gobble him up.