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How to use gore in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun, verb

Gore means blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. Example: “The bull gored the matador.”

Examples of gore by meaning

nounA gout or mass of such blood.

  • And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 23

verbTo pierce with a horn or tusk.

  • The bull gored the matador.

nounA triangular piece of land where roads meet.

  • I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.1968, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program, Highway Safety...
  • With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.2010, John L. Campbell, Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems, page 20-5
  • Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.2011, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 2011, page...

verbTo provide with a gore.

  • to gore an apron

More sentences with gore

  • The ESRB rated the video game M for Mature as it contained excessive blood and gore.From the entry m
  • You started a world war, killing millions, just to fix some of your border gore?From the entry border gore
  • I encountered a lot more gore like gory videos, military videos.2024, Step Together NSW, Start The Conversation: Episode 2. From the entry foodist
  • A Tracy man is recovering from severe wounds after being gored by a bull.2018 July 8, “'I Was Going To Die': Man Gored By Bull In Tracy”, in CBS News. From the entry Tracy
  • The glorification of blood and gore is not new, but it has only recently entered the mainstream.2010 March 30, Richard W. Kroon, A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms, illustrated…. From the entry gorn
  • I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore.2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 335. From the entry RPG
  • Gore, and the nation, missed a chance to find out for sure, partly through Mr.2008 May 23, Alessandra Stanley, “Soothing or Salting Wounds From Election 2000”, in New York Times. From the entry outlitigate
  • Then she screamed as a jet of spumescent gore slopped across the front of the paralysed fabric.2008, Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction, →ISBN. From the entry spumescent
  • Naturally it's compulsive Banksian reading, with lashings of gore, squalor, poison, torture and philosophy.2003, David Langford, Up Through an Empty House of Stars, page 214. From the entry Banksian
  • Skirts can also be fitted with a hip yoke to replace darts or gores.1989, Sharon Lee Tate, Inside Fashion Design, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 371. From the entry overtop
  • This would cause birdeyes, cuts, and dropped stitches in the gore line.1961, Textile Industries, volume 125, page 158. From the entry birdeye
  • By imperfect, we mean a streaked gore or probably a misweave here and there.1909, William Borsodi, Advertising Cyclopedia of Selling Phrases, page 1075. From the entry misweave
  • Cutegore is an aesthetic surrounding cutesy, pastel, anime style stuff contrasted with (often pixel-censored) gore and heavy themes.[2025 May 6, @valleyfthdolls, Tumblr. From the entry cutegore
  • Prepare thineselves for more over-the-top action, blood-soaked gore, and fourth-wall-breaking comedy than you can shake a stick at!2023 June 23, Jack Doyle, “The 'Deadpool 3' Cast Is Melting Our Brains”, in The Mary Sue, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2023. From the entry thineselves
  • He found Richard in one piece near a large circular container, thankfully, staring at a righteous mess of blood and gore.2021, G. S. Jennsen, Amaranthe V: Riven. From the entry righteous
  • Although, it's worth noting that their trade posts can cause quite the border gore when using its specific map mode.2018 November 27, Jason Rodriguez, “Crusader Kings II: Best And Worst DLC Expansions”, in PCInvasion, archived from the original on 04 Dec…. From the entry border gore
  • Gore, post-impeachment, never asked him to do.2007 May 13, Patrick Healy, “In New Role, Senator Clinton’s Strategist in Chief”, in New York Times. From the entry chit
  • Bores and aigers of gore and flame burst and pour from Hells, reified, Or Wounds, rather: Doom-gathered Kenosis unto Self-Deicide.2007, Nathan Redman, Bloodwork, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry aiger
  • Gore has looked into buying cable channel News World International.2003 November 16, James Poniewozik, “All The News That Fits Your Reality”, in Time, retrieved 18 Dec 2018. From the entry do the math
  • Gore, of course, has never been a political Boy Scout, least of all when it comes to campaign finance.2003, Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Al Gore: a user's manual, Verso, page 233. From the entry boy scout
  • And there is enough gore to outbleed “Ben-Hur.”1963, Show: The Magazine of the Performing Arts - Volume 3, Part 2, page 28. From the entry outbleed
  • Full of unexpected gore, off-color jokes, and gay canon events, "Bottoms" balances a refreshing authenticity with an unwavering ability to keep viewers on their toes.2023 December 27, “Top 10 Films of 2023”, in The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard Crimson, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry canon event
  • Work the 2 stitches in looped knitting; the last ten rows make a kind of gore on the lower edge of the collarette.2013, Weldon's Practical Needlework, page 70. From the entry collarette
  • He was obsessed with bullfighting, which was the PlayStation of the day, only considerably more dangerous; he was soon gored to death.2009, Paul Clammer, Alison Bing, Anthony Sattin, Paul Stiles, Lonely Planet Morocco, page 38. From the entry PlayStation
  • Gore can't even change the inflection in his voice without sounding like someone trying to talk and hold a vurp back at the same time.2000 August 18, SilverBullet, “Al Gore: I Am My Own Man...”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet). From the entry vurp
  • There had been several RTAs that night, but the gore did not bother her, she wasn’t one to panic at the sight of a jutting bone or dislodged eye.2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, pages 240-241. From the entry rta
  • Kushner expects his boxers to make nasty remarks, scripted or otherwise, to Barnumize their sport in the manner of Bob Luce's version of wrestling promising gore for the paying fools.1983 March 19, John Husar, “Collins, LaPaglia save fight for ring”, in Chicago Tribune. From the entry barnumize

Meaning of gore

  1. noun Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  2. noun A gout or mass of such blood.
  3. noun Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.

Full definition of gore

Questions about gore in a sentence

How do you use gore in a sentence?
Gore is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The bull gored the matador.”
What is a short sentence with gore?
“to gore an apron”
What does gore mean?
Gore means blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

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