Examples of “gore” in a Sentence

noun Blood, especially clotted or thickened blood from a wound, or graphic depictions of violence.

• The horror film was wall-to-wall gore.
• There was gore splattered across the crime scene.
• Some viewers switched off because they found the gore in the film too much.

verb To wound someone by piercing them with a horn or tusk.

• The matador was gored by the bull during the final pass.
• Farmers are warned that an angry bull can gore anyone who steps into its field.
• The old ram had gored a dog that wandered too close.

noun A triangular piece of fabric or land, such as a panel sewn into a skirt or sail to add width.

• The seamstress added a gore to the skirt so it would flare at the hem.
• She cut a long gore of cotton to widen the sail.
• Each gore in the umbrella-shaped skirt was stitched to the next one by hand.