Example Sentences

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There are still gouges in the carriage house from the carriages that were kept there, according to a former owner, Amy Pressler.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

As Earth’s climate has warmed, glaciers have rapidly melted in high mountain ranges across the globe, and the resulting water accumulates in unstable gouges cut by the glaciers as they retreat.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 8, 2023

The gouges they make in pursuit of that meal also allow gasses and liquids to escape the body.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022

And what, exactly, had left such deep gouges in the hind leg of a trapped bobcat?

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2022

What must the previous history of the planet have been to create sheared rocks, buried boulders, polygonal gouges in the ground?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan