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31 example sentences for GORGE, such as:

1. East of the gorge leveled out.
2. A torrent, whose bed was dry, led into a deep gorge.
3. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood.
4. The guests gorge themselves with foods as though they had not eaten for days.
5. They smelled death from afar and were drawn unerringly to it, to gorge themselves.

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 Meanings and Examples of GORGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gorge
 v.  stuff oneself; overeat; make a pig of oneself
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Her appetite never dulled, for whenever she remembered the everlasting goobers and dried peas and sweet potatoes at Tara, she felt an urge to gorge herself anew of Creole dishes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
2  They smelled death from afar and were drawn unerringly to it, to gorge themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  Now secure, she wanted to dance, to play, to riot, to gorge on foods and fine wine, to deck herself in silks and satins, to wallow on soft feather beds and fine upholstery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
5  I am arranging a stratagem of war in his pathway on the wooded slope, to block a gorge on the highroad with armed troops.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
6  Dark thick foliage hems it in on either hand, and into it a bare footpath leads by a narrow gorge and difficult entrance.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
7  A torrent, whose bed was dry, led into a deep gorge.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
8  "Never mind," he answered; and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, strode off down the gorge and so away into the heart of the mountains to the haunts of the wild beasts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
9  Whoever has beheld a cloud which has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of lofty houses.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
10  Little Juozapas gorged himself, and came home with a newspaper full, which he was feeding to Antanas when his mother came in.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
11  When Magua reached the cluster of lolling savages, who, gorged with their disgusting meal, lay stretched on the earth in brutal indulgence, he commenced speaking with the dignity of an Indian chief.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
12  She looked at him on every side and saw that something was moving and struggling in his gorged belly.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS
13  He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  She begged Antonia and me to go with her, and help get her cattle together; they were scattered and might be gorging themselves in somebody's cornfield.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
Example Sentence:
1  The guests gorge themselves with foods as though they had not eaten for days.
2  The white-water rafting guide warned us about the rapids farther downstream, where the river cut through a narrow gorge.
3  East of the gorge leveled out.