gross out
Example Sentences
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The filthy combination of it all merged into a gigantic germ inside of me, causing me to gross out myself — in addition to Mr. James and the rest of the internal staff.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2023
It’s never there to gross out viewers or to test their threshold of shock or disgust.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2019
“Moist is fine,” the writer says, and he has no problems with other seemingly mundane words that oddly gross out large swaths of the English-speaking population.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2013
“If it didn’t gross out a little kid, how bad could it be?”
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2012
Everything tasted gross out of plastic, all chemical-y and bland.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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