Example Sentences

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"It changes the atmosphere when a heckler goes too far, but it really is about gaging, do the people around me want me to keep going?"

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025

It’s just a matter of talking through it and gaging the draft and the people that are coming up and who’s available.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2014

One hesitates to call an opponent of marriage en gaging, but Germaine Greer is certainly that.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most gaging comment of all came from near the base of the famed extinct volcano Fujiyama, where a reporter interviewed extinct Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka.

From Time Magazine Archive

The habit of estimating himself and his own qualities without fear or favor gives him great facility for gaging the motives of other people.

From Poise: How to Attain It by Starke, D.