gorged

Example Sentences

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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

“The world couldn’t get access to enough Chinese goods in ’21, and it gorged on Chinese goods in ’22,” said Brad Setser, an economist and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

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

She found the remnants of a farm and gorged herself on bananas gone wild.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer