GUSH in a Sentence

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28 example sentences for GUSH, such as:

1. Oil gushed from the hole in the tanker.
2. The young mother was gushing over a baby.
3. Young mothers are gushing over their babies.
4. Clear water gushed into the irrigational channel.
5. Levin knew this, and the tears gushed from his eyes.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUSH
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gush
 v.  flow forth suddenly in great volume; make an excessive display
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
2  There on the table, with the inky pen beside it, was an unfinished sermon, with a sentence broken in the midst, where his thoughts had ceased to gush out upon the page two days before.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
3  In a moment more the crowd began to gush forth from the doors of the church.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
4  I felt his blood gush over my face, but I was intoxicated, I was delirious, and the blood refreshed, instead of burning me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
5  Madame Danglars did not see them; she was engaged in stilling the beatings of her heart, and restraining the tears which were ready to gush forth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds.
6  Tears also gushed from the eyes of Clerval, as he read the account of my misfortune.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  Pearl resembled the brook, inasmuch as the current of her life gushed from a well-spring as mysterious, and had flowed through scenes shadowed as heavily with gloom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
8  The rhapsody welled up within me, like blood from an inward wound, and gushed out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIV
9  Levin knew this, and the tears gushed from his eyes.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 32
10  I said this almost involuntarily, and, with as little sanction of free will, my tears gushed out.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  His adversary had fallen senseless with excessive pain and the flow of blood, that gushed from an artery or a large vein.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  At last his cries were choked by a dreadful fit of coughing; blood gushed from his mouth, and he fell on the ground.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Arkady flung himself on the neck of his former leader and friend, and the tears fairly gushed from his eyes.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  Her voice broke, tears gushed from her eyes, and she turned quickly to hide them and left the room.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX
15  As became known later, he had scarcely begun to address the merchants before tears gushed from his eyes and he concluded in a trembling voice.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  The president uses Twitter to inform followers about events he attends, to post articles he finds interesting, and to gush about famous visitors to campus.
2  Clear water gushed into the irrigational channel.
3  Oil gushed from the hole in the tanker.
4  The young mother was gushing over a baby.
5  Young mothers are gushing over their babies.
6  It is imperative that we stanch the gushing wound before we attend to the other injuries.