gashes

Cool water stung the gashes on my back from the myrtle branch and the cuts on my scalp from the stones.

Five people, including a 10-year-old girl, were injured, and two were taken to hospital with gashes and scratches.

When Kaveh Akbar was drinking, he would regularly wake up to find new bruises or gashes on his body, or to find that he’d lost his glasses, his wallet or his car.

But those very qualities have put him in danger, leading him to inadvertently hook himself on fishing lines and suffer gashes from boat strikes, and to damage salmon farms and other underwater structures in Sweden and Norway.

Weeping orange gashes oozed spores that spiraled down the harrowed bodies of the ancient giants.