gulp down

You should want a future in which doctors like me don’t try to resuscitate two babies before 7 a.m., and then, when neither makes it, gulp down their coffee to face the rest of the day.

Instead, something like this could happen: Maybe a raw milk drinker will gulp down some bird flu virus.

Despite all the vegetables we eat or vitamins we gulp down, sooner or later pathogens such as viruses and harmful bacteria infiltrate our bodies, and we need to take a time-out.

Elephants also gulp down 100 litres of water a day, so often drink the little water she gets supplied by the local authorities to use on the farm.

Over the last couple of decades, literary fiction has increasingly unhinged its jaws to gulp down genre fiction, creating new, lumpy hybrids — Stephen Graham Jones’ bloodily stitched together literary slashers; Susanna Clarke’s magic potion of epic fantasy and realism; Kate Atkinson’s sliding doors of historical fiction and time travel.