How to Use gore in a Sentence

gore

1 of 2 noun
  • There’s much more gore in Black Phone 2.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Perfect for horror fiends who want more plot with their gore.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Perfect for horror fiends who want more plot with their gore.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • There are two — one for the gore-lovers and one for, well, everybody else.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But for the true horror hounds who can never have enough over-the-top gore, this one's for you.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Las Casas filled page after page with extreme colonial gore.
    — Greg Grandin september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • 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 shoes also have extra-long gore panels (those stretchy parts on the sides) for a fit that hugs the foot.
    — Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • What’s a family movie without a little blood and gore?
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 June 2026
  • Sure, there’s gore and viscera, but it’s all done in a cartoonish manner.
    — Brittany Vincent, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 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
  • But ultimately, there is no visible blood or gore in the film.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • Leviticus has a enough gore and jumpy moments to qualify it as a proper horror film.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The jolts are muted, the setpieces are drab, and the gore is all too literally kept under wraps.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The show’s intellectual horrors in no way dilute the on-screen gore, though.
    — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Like the first, it’s rated PG-13, so no one was expecting a gore-fest.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Of course, Dead Island 2 applies all this gore to schlocky, slapstick effect.
    — WIRED, 5 July 2023
  • Those reporters told stories of war in all its gore and its glory, its exhilaration and its ennui.
    — Kathy Kiely, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The side zippers and elastic gore panels make these even easier to put on than your average slip-on sneakers.
    — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
  • The movie's restraint was also notable after years of horror movies that emphasized extreme gore.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 6 Sep. 2023
  • If a video looks like engagement bait or has excessive gore, for example, the content’s score will be penalized.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There are so many different kinds of cinematic languages for violence and gore and murder.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 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

gore

2 of 2 verb
  • Somebody's ox is going to get gored here.
    — Jim Defede, CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • But then he got gored in the leg and was rushed to the infirmary.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • This deer can’t even grab a bite at the local deer feeder without getting gored.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • How exactly will all these elements conspire to gore one of our heroes?
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 May 2025
  • The 30-year-old man was then gored, sustaining minor injuries.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 11 June 2025
  • 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
  • Other travelers have been burned, gored or even jailed after breaking park safety rules.
    — Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • By the end of the story, characters have been shot, pierced by arrows, gored by a deer, and nearly burned to death in a barn fire.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Bison have also gored visitors at the park last year and in 2023.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 10 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Not long before that, a 25-year-old Grove City, Ohio, woman was also gored.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 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
  • 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 man — whose identity has not been released at this time — was gored by a buffalo being prepared for a ritual sacrifice.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
  • As such, there is never any shortage of stories about enamored tourists being gored by bison in Yellowstone, and there have been at least two so far this year.
    — Kassondra Cloos, Outside, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking the animal alongside others in his party when the buffalo charged and gored him.
    — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In May, a 47-year-old Florida man was gored by a bison after approaching the animal.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 11 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • What to know about bison Multiple people have been injured by bison, including one other person who was gored by the animal in 2025.
    — Helena Wegner, Idaho Statesman, 10 June 2025
  • According to reports, the roughly 2,900-pound rhino burst from cover and fatally gored him before retreating back into the reserve.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Earlier this year, a New Jersey man who was visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • According to News Karnataka, eyewitnesses claimed to see the large animal lift the driver with its trunk before trampling and fatally goring him.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 3 May 2026

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