Example sentences for: gross-out

How can you use “gross-out” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dowd declines to answer, but does propose a far-reaching "gross-out theory" in which politics and media, driven by America's gradual desensitization and need for stimulation, have fallen to new depths of tastelessness.

  • The movie, directed by Michael Corrente from a script he wrote with the Farrellys, is not in the whacking, gross-out school of the brothers' other projects, but it shares with them a tender regard for the scruffy outsider, the yearning misfit.

  • A quarter century ago, Cooper sold the same kind of horror show to his teen fans as Manson does now: a gender-bending female name, pancake makeup, raucous music, an onstage guillotine, and preposterous gross-out legends.

  • It's a film that "ably gives the audience what it wants: hope, revenge, and gross-out jokes" (Dave Kehr, New York Daily News ). (Check out preliminary models of the aliens at this site.)

  • 1) The gross-out scenes (one youth shtups an apple pie; another drinks a beer laced with semen) are just "sucker bait to entice teenage audiences into the tent to see a movie that is as sweet and sincere at heart as anything Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland ever experienced" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). 2) Grossness is the film's essence: "[D]irty jokes are inserted at regular intervals like pop songs to perk up the action ...


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