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.

  • 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.

  • G raphic Violence: Is a more realistic depiction of gore, in which someone's head is chopped off, affording a glimpse of severed tendons and gushing arteries, worse in terms of inuring viewers to violence than generic mayhem, in which the bad guys fall over dead?

  • To commemorate the occasion, the foundation also has sponsored a gushing account of its first quarter-century, The Power of Ideas , by Lee Edwards.

  • A helmet full of seawater turns out to be full of sloshing gore; a soldier with a gushing arm socket picks up his severed limb and staggers aimlessly; a man with his intestines on the outside wails through a last, protracted hemorrhage.


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