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
The pack must have slunk into the village soon after we left, for it had gorged itself upon the abalone we had not taken.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
