How to Use gouge in a Sentence

gouge

1 of 2 noun
Definition of gougenext
Synonyms for gougenext
  • The accident left a big gouge in the side of the car.
  • The damage was a long gouge in the Mercedes bumper that stripped the paint off.
    — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 15 June 2017
  • The items have to be in mint condition, no stains, no gouges.
    — Joyce Smith, kansascity, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The rest of that branch looks fine with beautiful, healthy looking leaves above the gouge.
    — oregonlive, 3 May 2020
  • There is an enormous gouge in the side of the church in the shape of a crucifix, no doubt the work of the Islamic State.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Oh, and watch out for a third arm that often bursts out of their chests and gouges out victims' eyes.
    — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Scratches and burns can be sanded out; deep gouges can be filled.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2017
  • Use a gouge or rotary tool ($50, The Home Depot) to etch large sections.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Erlewine carefully rubs the gouges in the wood that run parallel to the strings between the bridge and the sound hole, a sign of the force with which Willie plays.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Visitors to the museum will be able to inspect the gouge up close.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
  • These scores and gouges can reveal a lot about ancient ecosystems, though.
    — Popular Science, 29 May 2020
  • The birds had no feathers below their necks and chest areas, and they were covered in gouges on their breasts, legs, and heads.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2018
  • Today, the houses's fifteen-feet-high oak doors, shaded by Callery pear trees on the north side of the street, bear gouges from that crow bar.
    — Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, 10 July 2019
  • More and more, the bomb-and-gouge game prevalent on a week-to-week basis on the PGA Tour is being rewarded in the majors.
    — Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2018
  • Scalpels, wood-carving gouges, and kitchen knives are perfect for adding details.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2018
  • No, Ser Gregor doesn’t drop him or perform his famous eye gouge.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • One reason that its view is so magnificent is that there's a huge gap in the skyline--and a huge gouge in the ground--where the Twin Towers once stood.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2012
  • If a gouge or chip in a surface goes through the veneer into the substrate below it, don't even try sanding it out.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Most of the gouges, which had been caused by the force of the crash driving the cars’ undercarriages downward into the pavement, were in the eastbound lane of Bowie Mill Road.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Across the Midwest, there are several aquifer systems created by glaciers that carved deep gouges in the earth.
    — Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • These make faint etchings on the underside of skis; a groove in a vinyl album is a gouge by comparison.
    — Author: David Segal, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Japanese keyhole saws, gouges, a cheese-grater-like rasp called a microplane and, for the final steps, lots and lots of sandpaper.
    — Bob Shallit, sacbee, 16 June 2018
  • The sight of that gouge haunted me throughout my childhood, a kind of cautionary specter warning me to avoid the least bit of UV exposure.
    — Will Taylor, Outside Online, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Those gouges filled back in, partially, with sand and gravel, then layers of clay and/or rock, which separate the aquifer from the river above.
    — Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Washington Post Mask gouging Amazon has had to warn some of its sellers not to price-gouge customers of their face masks.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2020
  • But that will be a heavy lift indeed with a health care system geared above all to price-gouge sick people out of as much money as possible.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Gouges from bullets and shells mar the elegant porticoes and grand wooden front doors.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
  • The 100-foot-wide gouge is a prominent reminder that cosmic fireworks don't only go up.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2014
  • The accident left him with a deep gouge curving from the middle of his chin up through the edge of his lips, twisting his mouth into a slight but permanent sneer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • As a result of this opaque dynamic that exists nowhere else in the economy, hospitals have a blank check to price gouge.
    — Cynthia A. Fisher, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2023
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gouge

2 of 2 verb
  • The lamp fell and gouged the table.
  • A bomb had gouged a large crater in the street.
  • They feel that they are being gouged by the oil companies.
  • The ship spun and fell against the rocks, which gouged and ripped apart the hull.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • To the left of the falls, gouged halfway up the cliff face, was a cave.
    — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Trees too close to your roof can scratch and gouge the roof.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2022
  • By pointing the grain in the same direction, the plane won't gouge the wood.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2021
  • Its thick shell takes sifakas a half-hour to gouge open with their teeth.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Over the years, he had been gouged, slashed, stripped, beaten, drugged, dumped in the snow and shot at.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The surfaces of her pieces are cut, sawn, gouged, distressed, smeared.
    — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 31 May 2018
  • Peafowl are the size of turkeys, with sharp beaks, massive talons and spurs that could gouge you.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • As the earth settles, fissures are gouging cracks in the roads.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • When the Roadrunners were gouged for 75 yards in three plays on the opening drive?
    — Nick Talbot, ExpressNews.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The likeness of each cat looked as if it had been attacked with a knife, their eyes and mouths gouged out.
    — Sean Elder, Town & Country, 22 Oct. 2018
  • Last week was bomb and gouge, and this week is very position golf.
    — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
  • Please resist the urge to gouge yourself with a needle.
    — Ana Sanchez, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2021
  • One man said that a cellmate’s eye was almost gouged out.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
  • With each hole, a new larger hole was gouged further down the tunnel.
    — John D'anna, azcentral, 18 July 2019
  • These boards are screwed and glued together, and are often cut and gouged.
    — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 31 May 2018
  • Atlanta may have scored more points, but the Falcons didn’t gouge Detroit the way Newton and Funchess and the tight ends did.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2017
  • The company started gouging her $75 per day to store the car.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 17 Oct. 2018
  • Norm whispers that we’re being gouged by the shiner prices.
    — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2020
  • One latched onto my face and got his thumb in my right eye, attempting to gouge it out.
    — Paul Leblanc, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The gas stations agreed not to gouge prices in the future, according to Paxton.
    — Alejandra Matos, Houston Chronicle, 5 July 2018
  • As more people work from home, there's a rise in price-gouging on tech gadgets.
    — Usa Today Network-Wisconsin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The higher prices paid by consumers in recent months have been met with charges of gouging.
    — George Anderson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • First, test a wallpaper seam with the tip of a metal putty knife, taking care not to gouge the drywall with the knife.
    — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 6 May 2022
  • The cougar bit the dog's head and wouldn't let go, even when Wilson attacked the animal with rocks, sticks and her fists and tried to choke it and gouge its eyes.
    — CBS News, 18 May 2022
  • The Alnic’s prow gouged a 28-foot-wide hole into two sleeping quarters, known as Berthing 3 and Berthing 5.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Black continued to gouge at Powell's eyes once on the ground, Powell wrote.
    — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 9 June 2022

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