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gorge

[gawrj] / gɔrdʒ /




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It ended up in a narrow gorge south of the confluence of two rivers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Isak Andic died in late 2024 after falling more than 300 feet into a gorge while out trekking with his son Jonathan in the Montserrat mountain range near Barcelona.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their junk food binges, a study has found.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

The ambitious action-adventure's been compared to a buffet, presenting players with a smorgasbord of ideas, gameplay styles and quests to gorge on.

From BBC Mar. 19, 2026

The gorge beside the mill would be too dangerous to navigate in the dark, so he’d sleep there, then make the descent at dawn.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

It offers quiet roads along coastlines and river gorges and into mountains, among rice paddies and through towns with tiled roofs where villagers pride themselves on their Shikoku hospitality.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

"The gorges are very deep and steep, so that's the difficulty."

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

I wish I could be enthusiastic, but “Eat Me” is a relentlessly quirky work that gorges on its own dark whimsy.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

Wind speeds can increase further as they funnel through the valleys and gorges in the area, much like water increases its speed as it passes through a hose.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2025

To the left, pine-clad slopes, frowning cliffs, narrow gorges, and blue peaks stretched away as far as the eye could reach.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

January tends to come with a slowdown in spending after consumers have gorged on shopping for the holidays.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 21, 2026

Instead, the American and British public gorged on the sensationalism because that was the supposedly “official” record.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2025

I immediately thought about the acrobatic squirrel that my Bird Buddy had captured — not infrequently — dangling from the roof of the feeder by its hind legs while it gorged itself on bird seed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2023

On a flat pitch under warm sun and against an inexperienced attack lacking any sort of cutting edge, England's batters gorged themselves.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2023

Coming in from his work, he gorged himself on fried food and went to bed and to sleep in the resulting torpor.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Barely a handful of winters have passed since Patriots fans, still gorging on six titles,

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 19, 2026

After spending July gorging on the larvae of alkali flies, the birds are gradually departing this month to begin their migration to another saline lake about 6,000 miles away — Laguna Mar Chiquita in Argentina.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2025

It denotes licentiousness and lack of control, the actions of a toddler gorging himself on chocolate until he is sick.

From Salon Apr. 5, 2025

“It seems to have been really gorging itself, eating very rapidly.”

From Scientific American Sep. 28, 2023

They would probably get close enough, while Gollum was gorging and off his guard.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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