Example sentences for: gushed

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

  • In New York, where he played the Bruch Violin Concerto in G minor , the audience leapt to its feet and gushed appreciation.

  • News and Time gushed about "Clintonism," the Standard offers its own definition (pegged to the State of the Union): "Clintonism transforms your most parochial worries into matters of state," dealing with picayune issues rather than genuine ones.

  • This age ended when the sky fell upon the earth and the waters gushed up, turning men into fish.

  • The pundits were generally enthusiastic about Glenn's rocket ride--McLaughlin gushed that it would "change the outlook on who is old"--although the cynics deemed the trip an "interplanetary perk for a favored politician" (Kate O'Beirne, Capital Gang ). Juan Williams ( Fox News Sunday ) worked the issue for the gag: Send Strom Thurmond instead, to determine "the effect of weightlessness on orange hair."

  • A front-page headline last Saturday read, "Peace at last for Ulster," and an editorial gushed, "[I]t is not naive to be optimistic about its prospects" and "we must all resist the temptation to see future violence described as a failure of the peace process," although that temptation would surely be strong.


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