gore

Example Sentences

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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

“Don’t Talk About Joe Mac” is much more than a true-crime gore fest that reveals where the bodies are buried.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

The capacity of film to genuinely frighten, via editing, camera, music and—notably in a Wan film—ambient sound was being abandoned in favor of gore and giggles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

Having worked on “Saving Private Ryan” and a number of other war films, this was a man who didn’t shy away from gore and loved his job.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 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