How to Use gore in a Sentence

gore

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  • The elastic gore at the sides stretches to help you in the process and then secures your foot once in.
    — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Wasn’t that the meaning of a friendship stronger than the bones that held your gore and spirit?
    — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
  • These boots are easy to slip on and off with the elastic gore panels and heel tabs.
    — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2023
  • There is no blood or gore, as if to suggest the subjects have been through enough.
    — Julia Halperin, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Get creative with the makeup and pack on the gore or go bold with your most dramatic look yet.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 2 June 2023
  • The show is bloody and has lots of fights (with weapons, fists and special powers) but avoids gratuitous gore.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • With humor, gore, and heart, this flick is a thrilling ride that will keep you entertained from start to finish.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Sure, there’s gore and viscera, but it’s all done in a cartoonish manner.
    — Brittany Vincent, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • However, the real laughs and appeal of Dead Alive come from how over-the-top the gore and effects really get.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, Dead Island 2 applies all this gore to schlocky, slapstick effect.
    — WIRED, 5 July 2023
  • One exception: the Deadites, who embody both the film’s comedy and its gore.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Contains bloody violence, some gore, strong language throughout and some drug use.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • There’s no gore or blood or graphic images of any kind associated with those scenes.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Adapted by the play’s creator, Aaron Mark, and produced by horror factory Blumhouse, the series features plenty of not-for-the-squeamish gore.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 7 July 2023
  • Yes, the gruesome slaughter of past victims has made for some terrifying gore, but there’s something more sinister about this.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • The movie's restraint was also notable after years of horror movies that emphasized extreme gore.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 6 Sep. 2023
  • While the coordinated elastic gores make for an extra comfortable silhouette, these boots run a touch narrow, so opt out if your feet are on the wider side.
    — Calin Van Paris, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Eli Roth faces that challenge in Thanksgiving, a satirical American gore fest for a society in chaos.
    — Armond White, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Stories about die-offs, as Tye pointed out, usually hyperfocus on the gore of specific events.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
  • There are so many different kinds of cinematic languages for violence and gore and murder.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • While much of Isonzo’s violence is restricted to bloodless, single-shot, mid-distance killing, the game still manages to surprise you with believable and eye-opening gore.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Many of the same bears return every year, and since each animal has a name and distinct personality, the live cams function as a wholesome reality show with a little salmon gore.
    — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2019
  • In fact, hardly any blood is shed on-screen until the big figure-skating finale — a Looney Tunes fight scene in which audiences will be too distracted by the wild blades-of-glory choreography to take much notice of the brief bit of gore.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The dreams themselves are creepily and memorably staged, with unsettling zooms, ominous noises and odd dashes of prosthetic gore.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Rather than falling into the trap of the provocative and taboo for the sake of shock value, Roth emerges as a more mature filmmaker, without entirely sacrificing his sense of humor and penchant for brain-altering gore.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Through the gore, Castaneda noticed something unexpected: the shooter, Mauricio Garcia, who killed eight people that afternoon, was Latino.
    — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • Kristóf’s sentences are like those skeletons, commemorations of indescribable sadness that have been meticulously scrubbed of gore and gristle.
    — Jennifer Krasinski, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
  • The second installment became a word-of-mouth sensation among horror fans due to its extreme gore, lengthy running time, dark humor, hallucinatory sequences and cameos from genre mainstays like Chris Jericho and Felissa Rose.
    — William Earl, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Those wrinkles, however, amount to false advertising for a movie that derives most of its humor from over-the-top gore, an amusing-in-theory notion that inevitably yields diminishing returns even spread over a relatively brisk 90-some-odd minutes.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The nauseating gore, unrestrained violence, and cortisol spiking jump scares typical of classic horror films isn’t always especially palatable to the everyday cinephile.
    — Colin Scanlon, Redbook, 11 May 2023
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gore

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  • But then he got gored in the leg and was rushed to the infirmary.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • All does not end well: A man is gored and a child is trampled.
    — Andrea Sachs, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
  • The lion’s bite was toothless, while the ewe gored the lion’s stomach with her sharp horns.
    — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The two people turned away from the animals before one of the bison charged at and gored the woman.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2023
  • She was gored not only in the collarbone but also the arm and one other place.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Beard, who had been gored by an elephant in 1996, died like an old tusker going to the elephants’ graveyard.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Not long before that, a 25-year-old Grove City, Ohio, woman was also gored.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • Officials said the two visitors turned around and tried to walk away, but one bison charged at them and gored the woman.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 17 July 2023
  • Several runners took knocks and hard falls in the 8 a.m. event but no one was gored by the beasts, a frequent feature of the spectacle.
    — Álvaro Barrientos, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • In June, a man suffered an arm injury after being gored.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
  • Last summer, a woman was gored and thrown into the air after getting within 10 feet of a bison.
    — Claire Barber, Field & Stream, 8 June 2023
  • One of the two large animals charged and gored the woman, and park officials believe mating season may have played a key role.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • That fall, another tourist tripped over himself when charged by a bull elk, and last year, a Yellowstone bison gored a man who got too close.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 May 2023
  • The other man was gored in the leg and listed in stable condition at a hospital, officials said.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Monday's attack is the first such incident in 2023, but several visitors to the park were gored by bison last year.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 17 July 2023
  • Less than a month later, a Colorado man visiting Yellowstone was gored by a bison at Old Faithful.
    — Timothy Bella, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • Additionally, women are beaten, punched and thrown; a woman is repeatedly beaten with a thurible; a girl is gored by goat horns; and more.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • In one instance, a 71-year-old woman was gored by a bison one day after another visitor was injured by different bison.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 24 May 2023
  • In order to gore its preferred ox, the FTC is ignoring the realities of today’s retail world in asserting that Amazon is a monopolist.
    — Jessica Melugin, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
  • But then he got gored in the leg and was rushed to the infirmary.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • All does not end well: A man is gored and a child is trampled.
    — Andrea Sachs, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
  • The lion’s bite was toothless, while the ewe gored the lion’s stomach with her sharp horns.
    — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The two people turned away from the animals before one of the bison charged at and gored the woman.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2023
  • She was gored not only in the collarbone but also the arm and one other place.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Beard, who had been gored by an elephant in 1996, died like an old tusker going to the elephants’ graveyard.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Not long before that, a 25-year-old Grove City, Ohio, woman was also gored.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • Officials said the two visitors turned around and tried to walk away, but one bison charged at them and gored the woman.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 17 July 2023
  • Several runners took knocks and hard falls in the 8 a.m. event but no one was gored by the beasts, a frequent feature of the spectacle.
    — Álvaro Barrientos, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • In June, a man suffered an arm injury after being gored.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
  • Last summer, a woman was gored and thrown into the air after getting within 10 feet of a bison.
    — Claire Barber, Field & Stream, 8 June 2023

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