gashes
Example Sentences
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One day the pioneers who had planted the first trees on the windswept coastal plateau discovered huge gashes in the rich vegetation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
She didn’t have a necropsy kit to do a detailed assessment, but noticed there wasn’t much blood, which might indicate it had severe gashes and died from blood loss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
My body was covered in a handful of enlarged mosquito bites, many of them already open gashes from my relentless itching.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
Satellite images of Yapacana National Park in Amazonas show deep gashes in the earth, where miners have dug enormous open pits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
Eventually the cracks would spread into treacherous gashes, sometimes ten or fifteen feet deep and wide enough to trap a man’s leg.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
