GORE in a Sentence

Learn GORE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

10 example sentences for GORE, such as:

1. They were gored, kicked, bitten, trampled on.
2. I must dip my hand again and again in the basin of blood and water, and wipe away the trickling gore.
3. The figures are computer generated and the blood and gore is nothing like the grisly stuff you see on TV every night.
4. The unicorn soon came towards him, and rushed directly on the tailor, as if it would gore him with its horn without more ado.
5. For from the first tree whose roots are rent away and broken from the ground, drops of black blood trickle, and gore stains the earth.

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 Meanings and Examples of GORE
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gore
 n.  dirt; mud; blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted; wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth
Classic Sentence:
1  For from the first tree whose roots are rent away and broken from the ground, drops of black blood trickle, and gore stains the earth.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
2  It is a house of gore and blood-stained feasts, dim and huge within.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
3  Their drooping necks he severs with the sword, then beheads their lord likewise and leaves the trunk spouting blood; the dark warm gore soaks ground and cushions.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
4  The unicorn soon came towards him, and rushed directly on the tailor, as if it would gore him with its horn without more ado.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
5  I must dip my hand again and again in the basin of blood and water, and wipe away the trickling gore.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  There were traces of his gore in that spot, and I covered them with garden-mould from the eye of man.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII
7  They were gored, kicked, bitten, trampled on.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
8  Three of them had their heads broken by blows from Boxer's hoofs; another was gored in the belly by a cow's horn; another had his trousers nearly torn off by Jessie and Bluebell.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
9  Passers-by always have more chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there are none.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS
Example Sentence:
1  The figures are computer generated and the blood and gore is nothing like the grisly stuff you see on TV every night.