Used in a Sentence

gored

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for gored.

Editorial note

From the look of them, you'd imagine they must have gored at least a few people, but then you remember they don't exist.

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Quick take

(textiles) Having a gore or gores.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gored gathered in one view.

adjective

(textiles) Having a gore or gores.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gored.

adjective

(textiles) Having a gore or gores.

Example sentences

1

From the look of them, you'd imagine they must have gored at least a few people, but then you remember they don't exist.

2

Think whose ox is going to get gored more often.

3

Again, you were ambivalent until your ox got gored.

4

I guess it is all a matter of whose ox is being gored.

5

But at least I'm not starving, freezing, naked, bleeding out on the plains after being gored by a rhino or squashed by a mammoth.

6

I guess it just depends on who's OX is being gored.

7

I don't have a reason, but I do have an explanation: the only ox being gored belongs to the students, who are a captive audience.

8

It's a bull market, and people are going to get gored when it stops (which of course is something bad a bull can do to people), which is a concern.

9

This seems an awful like new city bankers who are all in favor of unrestrained free market capitalism, until their ox gets gored, at which point they are first in line for a government handout.

10

These augmented the movie's found footage style to spark debates across the internet over whether the movie was a real-life documentary or a work of fiction.[30] Apparently when its their OX getting gored its not ok.

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> I guess it just depends on who's OX is being gored.

12

But the prof also made it clear via both a bit of text and a bit of subtext that we were getting so graded because nobody really takes the old stuff that seriously anyhow, so there's no sacred oxes getting gored.

Quote examples

1

Extremely "bullish" market, lofty valuations, irrational exuberance, people are going to end up gored when some of these companies (300431, 283.

2

Possibly, but this is the part I was referring to: "Like Yahoo!, its neighbour in Silicon Valley, eBay may be gored by Google, the ubiquitous search engine.

3

There is a large and schizophrenic body of law about when an owner is responsible for the operation of "their" machine, even if they're not doing the immediate operating (going all the way back to "who pays the man gored by a rented ox").

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use gored in a sentence?

From the look of them, you'd imagine they must have gored at least a few people, but then you remember they don't exist.

What does gored mean?

(textiles) Having a gore or gores.

What part of speech is gored?

gored is commonly used as adjective.