gash

Example Sentences

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His angular head topped with a green felt crown; his toothy mouth a sinister, grimacing gash; his eyes blackened with what looks like charcoal.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Ball needed treatment for a gash near his eye after colliding with Lee as he scrambled to grab a loose pass in the first quarter.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

Radcliffe had been given six weeks to trace that gash through the map of British India.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Figure, a startup with a $39 billion valuation, was sued last month by a former engineer who claims a malfunctioning robot had “carved a one-quarter-inch gash into a steel refrigerator door.”

From MarketWatch • Dec. 27, 2025

It wasn’t such a bad gash, and though he was sent to Crow Face to have it seen to, he was back almost straight away with a square of dressing plastered to his elbow.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro