Americans are also gulping video entertainment on their laptops and PCs (including the iPad).

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Water running through the reeds in the canal beside them made soft gulping sounds as it swirled along.

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Gulping down his envy with a chaser of contempt, a Roman found himself less awed than offended by Egypt.

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For example during the ingest phase, the Big Data solution should be capable of gulping massive volumes of data at high velocity.

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It is only a matter of time before sushi gulping goes global.

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We climb into a small fishing boat, and the sound of chirping crickets gives way to the splashing and gulping of the Adriatic beneath the hull.

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Chagrined, I swam back to the boat for a spear, while the rest of the guys practiced the art of deep diving without gulping a mouthful of sea water.

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The prisoner sank to his knees at the lip of the crater and looked back at the workers, his eyes hollow with terror, his mouth open and gulping air with rattling gasps through a parched throat.

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Only occasionally is the engine allowed to come to life, with the owner listening nostalgically to the roar of its great carburettor gulping volumes of air, happily polluting the atmosphere as it used to before environmentalists spoiled all the fun.

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But what we really need is big, new ideas: new ways to distribute and store energy for electric power, new ways to conserve and distribute clean water for farming and gulping, and new ways get ourselves and our cargo around, so that we don't change the Earth's climates too much as we burn our fossil fuels.

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