How to Use gross-out in a Sentence

gross-out

1 of 2 noun
  • At the risk of spoiling the film’s big and best gross-out scenes, look out for the rat.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
  • Still, the swearing and gross-out humor loses its bite after a while.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • What was the shower like after stripping off the gross-out clothing?
    — Danielle Sepulveres, Outside Online, 26 July 2021
  • The gross-outs in the middle of the movie are much more effective than anything at the end.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 May 2024
  • The moment in the movie that people can’t stop talking about is not one of the jump scares or gross-out shots.
    — Time, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The title of this gross-out screwball bro-comedy pretty much says it all.
    — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • If the gross-out gags are hilarious, a streamer or studio will pounce.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • With few exceptions, all the other students had shrieked in fear and had, from then on, called her gross-out or bug-girl.
    — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
  • So there's gross-out stuff with the worms, ghostly things, psychological thriller type of stuff, etc.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Its gross-out factor continues to delight.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026
  • And, while the frenetic action is mostly played for laughs, the gross-out gore hits impressive highs, or should that be lows?
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
  • More central than the gross-out factor is a wry statement of disability pride, a reminder that swagger needn’t be skin-deep.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Best and Last, with the latest entry in the gross-out comedy franchise heading for a fourth-place finish.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2026
  • The many physically revolting and morally repellent acts that ensue amount to little but a gross-out joke.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The movie’s body-horror gross-outs might not have played with Globes or Oscar voters in another era, but these days, anything goes.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
  • There are more traditional flavors, such as blue raspberry, but relabeled for gross-out delight.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Raimi indulges Send Help’s gore and gross-out moments with the zest of someone returning to his cult-favorite roots.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In another gross-out scene, Audrey projectile-vomits in a nightclub.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • In this case, the mood is way more gonzo, straddling the line between gross-out comedy and Grand Guignol gore-mongering.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The problem is that a wee sip of this skit-like enterprise goes a very long way, and Corirossi’s wanna-be cult classic over-serves us with gross-out comedy.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Our list of stunts includes an array of stealthy food swaps, suspicious shoe gags, bath time switcheroo and plenty of gross-out humor (from faux doggie doo to imposter creepy crawlies).
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Make the Audience Heave Remember when gross-out movies were lowbrow comedies?
    — Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Its lumbering, gross-out finale, in particular, is a problem, not so much blasting past the limits of good taste as grinding away at achieving bad taste.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
  • From the opening seconds, the director goes full Kubrick, ratcheting up the creepiness until the gross-out climax comes as a relief.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The comic has gained notice on the long-running NBC late-night series for bizarre humor that blends gross-out jokes with a taste for the absurd.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
  • But in her apparent eagerness to stuff all manner of ideas, themes, and gross-out scenes into the body-horror joint, James can lose sight of the real meat of her tale.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
  • There’s plenty of the gross-out jokes and barrier-breaking humor that’s Farrelly’s signature.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The idea of combining the cleaner elements of a gross-out comedy with horror, action and other summer movie thrills pretty much reset the board.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Raimi shows an even higher threshold for gross-out humor — no small feat, considering Östlund’s epic seasickness sequence.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Helms reflected on the enduring, and cross-generational, appeal of the gross-out buddy comedy.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2024

gross out

2 of 2 verb
  • Keltner seems to be grossed out by his go-to smoothie as much as viewers.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Eventually, you get grossed out by the person.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Darcey continued heaving in the car, which left Georgi grossed out.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Valerie Bertinelli isn’t grossed out by a little dog slobber.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Moist may be the seminal example, but there are certainly other words that people get grossed out by.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Everyone is universally grossed out.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Everyone is universally grossed out.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Gilda Radner first grossed out Jane Curtin with her iconic Weekend Update reporter with a geometric wig in 1977.
    — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026

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