gouge

Example Sentences

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That doesn’t mean that the grocers can’t gouge shoppers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024

Formulaic demands of the PGA Tour, where bomb and gouge to receptive greens is such a profitable pursuit, were not the qualities required last week.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024

Pressing her body down for leverage, she scraped the wood with a gouge, removing layers, her hands steady and firm.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

By 160 million years ago, lampreys were larger than ever before, actively swimming after fish to gouge out flesh from their prey like living ice cream scoops.

From National Geographic • Oct. 31, 2023

Because I can already tell: Things are more fair here, just because everything’s so fast that who’d have the time to stop and gouge a customer?

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle