GORY in a Sentence

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1. The tall soldier held out his gory hand.
2. He falls spouting streams of blood, and bites the gory ground, and dying writhes himself upon his wound.
3. No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose.

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 Meanings and Examples of GORY
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gory
 a.  bloody; full by bloodshed and violence
Classic Sentence:
1  No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The tall soldier held out his gory hand.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  He was dressed now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  The gory, dust-stained, half-shaven head with its long neck trailed twisting along the ground.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
5  He falls spouting streams of blood, and bites the gory ground, and dying writhes himself upon his wound.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
Example Sentence:
1  At last night's gathering, Thompson described in gory detail the injuries suffered by McCain during his capture and detention at the Hoa Lo Prison in North Vietnam.
2  Instead, Mr Blomkamp's ramshackle film doesn't quite focus on anything, but blunders around from one gory shoot-out to the next without stopping to say anything coherent about robotics, law enforcement, South Africa or anything else.