How do you use Gorged in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like sated or satiate, plus the exact meaning.
Gorged meaning
- With a stomach stuffed full of food.
- With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
- Having a gorge or throat.
Using Gorged
- The main meaning on this page is: With a stomach stuffed full of food. | With the neck collared or encircled by an object. | Having a gorge or throat.
- Useful related words include: sated, surfeited, satiate, satiated.
- In the example corpus, gorged often appears in combinations such as: gorged on.
Context around Gorged
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gorged
- In this selection, "gorged" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fox, others, argent, themselves and himself stand out and add context to how "gorged" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include be found gorged on sacrificial and child and gorged out. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gorged" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gorged
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They gorged themselves on appetisers, mains and desserts. (8 words)
Woman allegedly killed her child and gorged out. (8 words)
Of course the clever – but not too clever – fox gorged himself and grew fat. (14 words)
Anyone who has gorged on a giant Sunday lunch will know just how sleepy it can make you afterwards, but smaller, regular meals are important for improved sleep, says Ramlakhan. (30 words)
The soldiers were often to be found gorged on sacrificial meat, making a drunken nuisance of themselves on the streets while Antioch's hungry citizens looked on in disgust. (29 words)
To find out, as part of The Junk Food Experiment, I gorged on a 6,000-calorie (more than double a man’s daily recommended intake) mega burger. (28 words)
Example sentences (8)
They gorged themselves on appetisers, mains and desserts.
Of course the clever – but not too clever – fox gorged himself and grew fat.
Some hand-rolled cigarettes, while others gorged on Haribo sweets and swigged Magnum tonic wine.
To find out, as part of The Junk Food Experiment, I gorged on a 6,000-calorie (more than double a man’s daily recommended intake) mega burger.
Anyone who has gorged on a giant Sunday lunch will know just how sleepy it can make you afterwards, but smaller, regular meals are important for improved sleep, says Ramlakhan.
Woman allegedly killed her child and gorged out.
The soldiers were often to be found gorged on sacrificial meat, making a drunken nuisance of themselves on the streets while Antioch's hungry citizens looked on in disgust.
The Spencer crest is: out of a ducal coronet Or, a griffin's head between two wings expanded Argent, gorged with a collar gemel and armed Gules.
Common combinations with gorged
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gorged on 4×