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

But it’s not like I opened the box and gorged myself on the pictures.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

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

Coming in from his work, he gorged himself on fried food and went to bed and to sleep in the resulting torpor.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck