How to Use full-bore in a Sentence

full-bore

1 of 2 adjective
  • This post cannot go live with full-bore profanity.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2026
  • The restaurant soft opened Tuesday with the intention to launch full-bore Thursday.
    — Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2026
  • These eight destinations run the spectrum from full-bore bars to semi-restaurants that also do drinking very well.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 30 June 2026
  • Some dialogue exchanges even edge into the realm of cringe comedy, without ever going full-bore Apatow.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • His decision to put Nine Inch Nails on hold and go full-bore into soundtrack work in the early 2010s expanded his reach.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • And thanks to Nielsen’s upgraded ratings methodology, which includes a full-bore accounting of people who watch live sports in out-of-home venues, the stateside deliveries for next year’s tourney will be bigger than ever before.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 9 Dec. 2025

full bore

2 of 2 adverb
  • The resistance intends to go full bore right up till the vote.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
  • This was just as the drug war was raging and the race to incarcerate was going full bore.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
  • LaVine plans on returning full bore in an attempt to save the season.
    — Jason Patt, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Krantz recalled first coming to work for the town right at the time the food truck controversy was in full bore.
    — Allan Vought, The Aegis, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Ahead of him, nearly a half-dozen cars had stacked up, trying to spread out to be able to find their own gaps to run a lap at full bore.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Why not just get rid of all the pretense and go full bore into fortune telling with astrology?
    — Lawrence Carrel, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • All three would have to sacrifice some measure of control, but in doing so could go full bore more often.
    — The Crossover Staff, SI.com, 5 June 2018
  • The investigation then turned full bore on Mays, who denies starting the blaze.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Both scientists have been going full bore ever since, pulling tracking detail once every two weeks and having a good time doing it.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Restaurants invested in online sales and delivery, and doctors went full bore into telemedicine.
    — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • But there's no confidence that the United States would full bore flow large scale forces to Taiwan and defend it.
    — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Some events, like next month’s Venice Film Festival in Italy, are going full bore with face masks and a reduced slate.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The high temperatures Thursday marked the peak of the second phase of a heat wave that’s been mostly full bore since July 2.
    — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
  • And with electrons flying at full bore, the furious single-seater promises to keep igniting the record books into embers and ashes.
    — New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Still, visitor facilities will not be operating at full bore.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2021
  • With everything in place, the distillery is now running full bore and seems ready to add another chapter to the building’s colorful history.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 30 July 2019
  • Afghanistan and its neighbor Pakistan are the last two countries where the wild poliovirus is still endemic, and the campaign is going full bore to wipe it out by the end of this year.
    — Byleslie Roberts, science.org, 16 Jan. 2023
  • While Thursday’s soft opening included basically food and music, things went full bore from Friday through Sunday.
    — David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Instead of resting up for the workweek after going full bore on the ice, Schiffman, a lifelong hockey fanatic, took his playing stick, placed it on his front door step, turned on his porch light, and said a prayer.
    — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The trade war, which went into full bore on Friday, has been an unpopular policy among many inside and outside of Silicon Valley.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 6 July 2018
  • However, crypto has a risk surface so complex that dollar cost averaging remains a solid way to go unless you are confirmed in the heroic but precarious style of the bold pilot who wants to go full bore.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Trump, who has held an edge on the economy in most polls, has been going full bore on the issue, proposing a bevy of individual tax breaks and general tariffs that could rattle the world of international trade.
    — Tobias Burns, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
  • There's an eco setting that reduces power for light cutting while conserving battery life, and six speeds for enough range to make multiple cuts in thin plywood on low to full bore (and maximum blade depth) to cut construction lumber.
    — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2023
  • Tyler Shough got the first-team reps and Anthony Brown worked with the second-team in a quarterback competition that won’t be at full bore until full padded practices begin in the middle of next week.
    — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2020
  • In order to run full bore, cars typically need 100 degrees combined from ambient and track temperature to be certain the Firestone tires are at their optimum grip levels.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2022
  • With the bulk of their time on the F50 spent racing in the heat of battle, there is little option but to try new ideas and test the limits while going full bore at up to 50 knots, side by side alongside 11 rivals.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Land clearing at the 123-acre Cambrey Pointe community proceeded full bore Thursday across narrow, two-lane Rinehardt Road from the restaurant.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 14 Nov. 2025
  • While many television and podcast analysts have been extremely careful to only note possible theories of what happened to Guthrie based on their past investigative expertise, others have gone full bore in boldly declaring their view of what occurred.
    — Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
  • Other big agencies are expected to participate as well, as the media industry and Nielsen appear to move further apart in the debate over how TV viewers ought to be counted in a business that has moved full bore into digital realms.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The focus now is on how to get energy back into the aging shopping plaza — several of its larger anchors, including Michael’s, Party City and Big Lots, have closed — without going forward full bore on the overall city hub plan, which would have connected both sides of Oso Creek with the center.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025

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