GORY in a Sentence

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For GORY, below is one of 7 sentences:
No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose.

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 Meanings and Examples of GORY
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gory
 a.  bloody; full by bloodshed and violence
Classic Sentence:
1  No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The tall soldier held out his gory hand.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  He was dressed now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  The gory, dust-stained, half-shaven head with its long neck trailed twisting along the ground.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
5  He falls spouting streams of blood, and bites the gory ground, and dying writhes himself upon his wound.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
Example Sentence:
1  At last night's gathering, Thompson described in gory detail the injuries suffered by McCain during his capture and detention at the Hoa Lo Prison in North Vietnam.
2  Instead, Mr Blomkamp's ramshackle film doesn't quite focus on anything, but blunders around from one gory shoot-out to the next without stopping to say anything coherent about robotics, law enforcement, South Africa or anything else.