"gulp" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a verb to describe the action of swallowing something quickly or noisily. For example, "Jane couldn't believe what she was hearing, so she took a gulp of her coffee to give herself time to think."
But as always, it's worth a pause to think before taking a large gulp of the Kool-Aid.
As he and his bros gulp down cappuccinos, Dhangar recalls feeling out of place at a trendy restaurant just a couple of years ago.
I can, as a last resort, gulp down my drink in one go and leg it.
My firstborn, a daughter, raises her head above the water line in the birthing pool, eyes her surprised parents suspiciously and takes her first, shocked gulp of air.
Plays always come out of not understanding something, then investigating the stuff outside you, and gulp, the stuff inside you – until you at least have a proposition, a provocation to present for an audience's consideration.
My understanding of death and its aftermath grew in small increments rather than in one big gulp.
As a precondition for any concessions on his part, Mr Mandela is insisting on the lifting of the state of emergency and an amnesty for politically motivated crimes.This is stern stuff, which will infuriate South Africa's white right-wingers and make white liberals gulp a bit.
Babies acquire their gut flora as they pass down the birth canal and take a gene-filled gulp of their mother's vaginal and faecal flora.
Mostly Sinhala visitors from outside the Tamil north, they gawp at the empty pool, then gulp iced drinks at the adjoining Café Sixty Eight (run by the army's 68 Division).
It reeks of "cigareets and whiskey and wild, wild women", of one-gulp shots in blue-collar bars in the rustbelt and the deep south.
Northern regions want devolution, and are becoming restless.In this section The very long arm of its law It's the same old Italy United, for now Hans Haekkerup, a Danish proconsul for Kosovo Gulp Ireland's risky budget ReprintsHow could things have been left to drift so badly?
