gore
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This is Hollywood's latest horror film - Backrooms - and it knows its audience: one more drawn to whispered horror than A-list names, monsters and gore.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Classic is the first word you think of to describe this genre of horror film, with its quaint setting and relative lack of gore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
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
In horror, more is more — more gore, more jump scares, more shadowed silhouettes; all in service of scaring the viewer.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
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
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
We spent the morning talking and looking at examples of trees gored by shedding antlers and branches snapped by lumbering bodies.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
It’s true that Mamdani has a huge stake in diverting the Trump bull from goring New York.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
Monday’s incident is the second goring by a bison in the park in the last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
This would require a holistic overhaul of the educational system and the goring of many sacred cows.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2014
Even though goring accidents are common, few result in life-threatening injuries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2014
"To quiet down the bulls and keep them from breaking horns against the stone walls, or goring each other."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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