GOUGE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for GOUGE, such as:

1. He took a knife and gouged a hole in the bottom of the boat.
2. He began to gouge a small pattern in the sand with his cane.
3. To make a Halloween lantern, you first have to gouge out the inside of the pumpkin.
4. Between a waste of tracks and a raw gouged hill they found poverty in staggering shanties.
5. Joe scooped his eyes with his disengaged wrist, as if he were bent on gouging himself, but said not another word.

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 Meanings and Examples of GOUGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gouge
 v.  force with the thumb; make a groove in
Classic Sentence:
1  How at such an apparently unassailable surface, they contrive to gouge out such symmetrical mouthfuls, remains a part of the universal problem of all things.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
2  Joe scooped his eyes with his disengaged wrist, as if he were bent on gouging himself, but said not another word.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
3  Between a waste of tracks and a raw gouged hill they found poverty in staggering shanties.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  He began to gouge a small pattern in the sand with his cane.
2  To make a Halloween lantern, you first have to gouge out the inside of the pumpkin.
3  He had finished gouging out a cob, and now he fitted a weed stem to it, loaded it with tobacco, and was pressing a coal to the charge and blowing a cloud of fragrant smoke -- he was in the full bloom of luxurious contentment.
4  He took a knife and gouged a hole in the bottom of the boat.