gulp

Object

• air: Chew food well with mouth closed - don't gulp air.
• water: Voice 2: How can you think such a thing ( angrily gulps back water, starts coughing, falls to knees.
• mouthful: She poured a lukewarm cup of coffee, held it between her hands and gulped mouthfuls, staring at the dirty kitchen floor.

Converse of object

take: Quick tip - Take more gulps of gas to shoot the baby into the prams further away.

Adjective modifier

• big: If you take big gulps of air there is no problem; with shallow breaths there is a hint of flutter.
• huge: You need to take it in small sips rather than huge gulps in one go.
• long: He nodded, then sucked a long gulp of air into his lungs.
• large: The is proven to be the most beneficial way to take liquid on board rather than large gulps.
• single: He reached inside the sack and ate up the cheese almost in a single gulp!
• few: The boy's was half empty in a few gulps.

Modifying Another Word

• n't: I have n't gulped anything down in quite some time.
• then: Make it good and tight, then gulp a couple of times.
• just: Morven stood ready, not sure whether to extinguish the fire, or just gulp down her glass of red nectar.

Noun used with modifier

user: Over the coals hands in the users google gulp.

Followed by a transitive particle

down: The horse learns to gulp down air simply by creating a vacuum in the mouth.

Preposition: of

• air: He nodded, then sucked a long gulp of air into his lungs.
• water: The waves were quite big and I got fairly waterlogged and took in some big gulps of water.
• beer: Between gulps of beer we discussed the frustrating way that working for a living interferes with Real Creativity.
• coffee: After a quick peek at Downing Street and a gulp of expensive coffee the trip was steered back on course.

Preposition: for

air: The fish develop pale gills and may be seen swimming close to the water surface where they gulp for air.