gore
Example Sentences
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In addition to grime, gore and disdain for governments, the ragtime gangsters of “Peaky Blinders” provided a minor education.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
And now, just shy of his 40th birthday, Coogler is an Oscar winner, for best original screenplay for horror period piece "Sinners," an unlikely mash-up of racial segregation, Southern blues and vampire-fueled gore.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
But it’s also a vampire movie, full of fangs, gore and garlic, and it’s there where Mr. Coogler falters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
The film adaptation indeed boasts that “Evil Dead” influence in its setting, characters and gore factor.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025
About the feet of the Hornrock it wound, and flowed then in a gully through the midst of a wide green gore, sloping gently down from Helm’s Gate to Helm’s Dike.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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