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In warmer weather, outdoor life shifts to hiking and fly-fishing in Spearfish Canyon Nature Area, a 20-mile gorge in Lead’s backyard lined with 1,000-foot limestone cliffs and waterfalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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

Then there’s a gorge in between and it’s filled with all these, like, monster people that are trying to get them.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026

They'd been admiring the scenery and snapping selfies and were making their way along a footpath by the Graig Llech gorge when Lola veered off the path.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025

The walls of the gorge form a bowl, and water falls over the edge onto the rocky bottom of a creek below.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

In the same way that trees function as Earth's lungs, migrating animals—eating, pooping and dying along the way—circulate nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges to mountain peaks and from the poles to the tropics.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023

It’s hard to keep your eyes focused on the road as you behold a gauzy mist swirling around the mountains, veiling deep gorges, wide fjords, occasional turf-roofed dwellings and waterfalls.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

By mid-day, the canyons and gorges of the vast park near the border of Nevada shimmered beneath the white-hot sun, but the relentless, eyeball-stinging heat wasn’t enough to stop visitors from braving the danger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

The Ancient Lakes Trail Run winds through canyons and gorges and follows the shores of the aforementioned lakes.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

Right smack in the middle of flat plains were jagged peaks and steep gorges.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

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

Exasperated from not being able to elicit a clear, resounding “Yes!” from him, I hung up and gorged on my nuggets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

Afterward they gorged, though the meat was rotted and half-frozen, and moved even as they ate it.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The private-equity industry, after gorging on technology investments in the wake of the pandemic, is now coming back around to bread-and-butter companies such as industrial suppliers and service providers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

Rather, 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

The young sharks were gorging themselves on the hated stingrays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

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

From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023

She spent hours running through the trees with Gelifen, looking for unicorns and gorging on waterberries.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell