gored

Example Sentences

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How that happens will depend on whose oxen are gored.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

They don’t really care about “the reasons” or how others were experiencing America, whose ox the past few decades was being gored.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Last July, a 47-year-old woman sustained significant injuries after being charged and gored by a bison.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024

Not long before that, a 25-year-old Grove City, Ohio, woman was also gored.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

Yet it happened every summer, and every summer some nitwit tourist got gored.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen