Sentence examples for were gouged from inspiring English sources

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were gouged

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To make a mark or hole by scooping.

  • Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.

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His eyes were gouged out.

Their eyes were gouged out and their eardrums punctured.

Huge chunks were gouged out of neighbouring tower blocks.

His head had been bludgeoned and his eyes were gouged out.

Many of the faces were thoroughly destroyed, or the eyes were gouged out.

Houses that stayed put were gouged out like peppers and stuffed with rocks.

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"Many of my competitors were gouging them".

The bill strengthened the president's conviction that power companies were gouging rural America.

I'm not going to say there weren't individual operators or terminals that were gouging.

concluded that lenders were "gouging" customers to make up for losses.

Eyes are gouged out.

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