Example sentences for: gushing

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

  • In 1962, the writer William Manchester published Portrait of a President , a book so gushing in its praise of John F. Kennedy, so slack-jawed in awe, that the White House distributed copies as souvenirs.

  • But the essay's example was Tolstoy's use of Natasha Rostova in War and Peace . At Tolstoy's balls, teas, and operas, even jaded readers get to see everything anew--because we see it through Natasha's gushing teeny-bopper heart.

  • After winning Best Director at Cannes and making a splash at the New York Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's ode to women opens to gushing praise: "the most moving film of his career" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). A single mother whose teen-age son is suddenly killed makes a pilgrimage to track down the boy's father and in the process encounters women from all walks of life--transsexuals, pregnant nuns, divas, and more.

  • I realize I am gushing.

  • Clinton is gushing blood.


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