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How to use gory in a sentence

19 example sentences · adjective

Gory means covered with blood; very bloody. Example: “Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.”

Examples of gory by meaning

adjectiveCovered with blood; very bloody.

  • a gory movie

adjectiveScandalous, and often unpleasant.

  • Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
  • In no time they fired away all the gory intimate details, down to his rose tattoo.2006, Charlotte Wilson, The Greatest Man I Never Met, page 70
  • Let's hear all the gory details.2009, Bart Yates, The Distance Between Us, page 143

adjectiveExcessively detailed, often boringly so.

  • I bite my tongue and get all the gory information.2007 05, Angela Thompson, Where the Heck Is That Place Called Hope?, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 129
  • All the gory information is in the footnotes to the financial statements.2011 January 11, Ann C. Logue, MBA, Emerging Markets For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
  • When they go for a drink at the local pub, they may be quite bored with the gory minutiae of the local gossip.2013 March 22, Ethel Crowley, Your Place or Mine?: Community and Belonging in Twenty-First Century Ireland, Orpen Press, →ISBN

adjectiveBloody; pesky.

  • "It's like being in a gory squirrel cage with you three going round and round and getting nowhere."1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

More sentences with gory

  • I encountered a lot more gore like gory videos, military videos.2024, Step Together NSW, Start The Conversation: Episode 2. From the entry foodist
  • Join the red room to watch torture, murder and gory content on a live stream.2022, Sunny Makadiya, Aurora, page 139. From the entry red room
  • They crane their neck to specularise the gory event with sadistic pleasure.2004, Chioma Carol Opara, Her Mother's Daughter: The African Writer as Woman, page 191. From the entry specularise
  • Do you think they should show those terribly “gruey” (gruesome and gory) pictures in driver-education classes?1966 February 24, Helen Bottel, “‘Going Steady’ Is Out, ‘Going Around’ Is In”, Helen Help Us!, in Suffolk News-Herald, volume 44, number 47. From the entry gruey
  • Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay.1948 November 1, “The New Pictures”, in Time. From the entry Gascon
  • This is a Macbethian Gothic, a subtype of the shilling shocker designed to thrill the reader with gory supernatural spectacle.1998, Syndy M. Conger, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 26. From the entry Macbethian
  • Once the necromantic imperative driving the central characters has been hacked out, the play turns into pointless, gory thriller.1993, Plays and players, numbers 466-477, page 15. From the entry witchless
  • The flowing waters were befouled with the gory spray.1905, Saxo Grammaticus, translated by Oliver Elton, The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, section II. From the entry steel
  • A recent New York Times headline about warcore, the gorier sequel to gorpcore, squealed: “If you can get killed doing it, fashion wants it”.2019 October 30, Priya Elan, “Gorpcore: why people who rarely go outside are wearing hiking gear”, in The Guardian. From the entry gorpcore
  • A basketball game will not have the same effect as a comic jump and run, a gory dungeon crawler, or an abstract puzzle game.2015, Rachel Kowert, Thorsten Quandt, The Video Game Debate, page 187. From the entry jump and run
  • My nephew was reading a story, a tale of the Sherlocky sort; its pages were startling and gory, and blood was dispensed by the quart.1925 June 18, Walt Mason, “Rippling Rhymes”, in The Calgary Daily Herald. From the entry Sherlocky

Meaning of gory

  1. adjective Covered with blood; very bloody.
  2. adjective Scandalous, and often unpleasant.
  3. adjective Excessively detailed, often boringly so.

Full definition of gory

Questions about gory in a sentence

How do you use gory in a sentence?
Gory is used as an adjective. For example: “Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.”
What is a short sentence with gory?
“a gory movie”
What does gory mean?
Gory means covered with blood; very bloody.

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