How To Use Gouge In A Sentence

With these helpful wood floor repair tips you won't have to cover scratches or gouges with pieces of furniture or area rugs.
The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor. Main Street
Most of the nicks, scuffs and gouges that currently mar the work are a result of human carelessness, such as carts and chairs banging into the walls.
Most airlines in the US will gouge you for taking your bicycle on board, but the Mexican airlines usually let it pass as just another piece of luggage.
The dough is now ready to be used to make profiteroles, gougere, gnocchi or beignets. SFGate: Top News Stories

I think the last time I tried shaving with blades I left large gouges in my neck.
Our hearts have been gouged out and we have been left with ragged, weeping wounds. Times, Sunday Times
Sand to remove any remaining finish and all scratches, gouges, and cuts.
The massive wheels were digging great gouges in the road's surface.
He scratches and gouges with abandon in the fluent paint.
The weapon employed in the conquest is an "umbrella spoon" shown at left, which automatically opens into a large shield when you gouge down into the meat of the fruit. Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives
Now, I shove and elbow and do karate moves and eye gouges just to get down the hallway.
Order the addictively airy gougères, hollow pastry shells scented with cheese, as soon as you sit down.
Last year alone, $239 million of hard-working Kiwis' money was gouged out of them and just thrown out, and this Government was totally culpable for that.
Myself and friend intervened and managed to free the man from these gougers.
The lion's claws had gouged a wound in the horse's side.
The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick.
The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick.
They would also have used tools such as planes, axes, adzes, draw knives, wedges, knives, chisels, hammers, mallets, awls, gouges, and spoon augers (a type of drill).
On the other side, the run defense has been getting gouged, which isn't a plus with UTEP and Southern Miss coming up next. Scout.com > CollegeFootballNews.com
Sap mechanic changed from "Incapacitate" to "Sap". This will allow more humanoids that were previously immune to Sap to be vulnerable to Sap, but still immune to Gouge.
They were very ambitious, they gouged money out of businesses and governments and so on and they really fought for something.
They were a scrubby and desolate range from which bears and mountain lions streamed down to ogle and sometimes attack the inhabitants of houses gouged from the hills. Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull
But this is not the case with mean old Ebenezer Scrooge, whose first name chimes with "squeezer" as well as with "geezer," whose last name is a combination of "screw" and "gouge," and whose author disapproves mightily of his ways: Debtor's Prism
The physical assault on the books was frequently directed against the faces, and especially the eyes, of the figures on the covers, as though the very depiction of vision had to be gouged out.
Side of which is several ovel mounds of about 16 feet high and at the iner part of the Gouge a Deep whole across the Gauge N. 32 W 96 yds. to the Commencment of a wall of about 8 feet high N. 81° W. 533 yards to a Deep pond 73 yds in Deamuter, and 200 yards further to a The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
When the skies open up over the desert, watercourses alter, rivers gouge out deep channels and tracks, roads break up, trees are uprooted and our dramatic countryside changes yet again.
The San Gabes were a scrubby desolate range northeast of the city, from which bears and mountain lions emerged with regularity to attack the inhabitants of tract houses gouged from the hills. Excerpt: The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton
The habitual spectators at the School of Medicine, the College of France, and the Faculty of Sciences, know how experiments are made on the living flesh, how muscles are divided and cut, the nerves wrenched or dilacerated, the bones broken or methodically opened with gouge, mallet, saw, and pincers. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
The surface of each tile was gouged.
They'd also left two gouges running diagonally across the cheekbone down to the jaw.
For instance, on March 23, a group went to the town of Rantis and worked for hours to fill two trenches that the army had gouged out of the road to isolate the town.
He had gouged her cheek with a screwdriver.
Yet O'Donoghue and his colleagues on Mark Wilson's greenkeeping staff braved flying debris to try and repair damage to the golf course, especially one spot at the back of the 12th green, where a fallen TV gantry gouged lumps out of the putting surface. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
Below Steall, the Water of Nevis is no less than a thundering cataract, as it flows from the flats and gouges its way through and down a tight narrow gorge.
I want to gouge out its innards and throw them out the window.
An uncompromising 1970s makeover had gouged out the windows and buried all stone beneath breeze block, concrete tiles and cement render. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, well you could do almost anything you wanted to except bite, or gouge out eyes.
When I tripped, I had fallen onto a sharp stone, and it had effectively gouged a considerable hole in both my jeans and my knee.
Even if those horns manage a gouge here or a nick there, a matador can always depend on antibiotics to stave off serious complications.
Training fails to adress the issue too-yet needs to to stop the waste of public money and resources on officers who wont work Friday and Saturday nights-if they cant take a bit of Fing and blinding from the Training Sgt how are they going to cope with someone trying to gouge their eyes out in a pub fight? Make the lie big, make it simple and keep saying it. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The main physical feature of the hill are the two great corries which are gouged out of the eastern flanks of the hill, the dark side of the mountain which is relatively unseen, and unfrequented.
To make a Halloween lantern, you first have to gouge out the inside of the pumpkin.
The mighty pumpkin itself has - sadly, in my opinion - supplanted our own dear and humble neep at Halloween - although it is certainly much easier to gouge out a pumpkin than a hard turnip to make a lantern for guisers.
If Burger gouged, that is inexcusable but, apart from that, what else did they do that was thuggery? Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
He took a knife and gouged a hole in the bottom of the boat.
In extreme scenarios, a flood becomes a massive debris flow known as a lahar-a deadly tsunami of mud, boulders, and uprooted trees that can gouge 100-foot-deep gullies, flatten forests, and jump longstanding banks. Undefined
Around one last bend in the water-gouged and gulleyed road, prepare for a sight the like of which you have never imagined: the tracks of the sliding rocks of Racetrack Playa, a sight unique on Earth.
I also don't think he's trying to gouge me on the increase, which is pretty reasonable.
They destroy everything in their path and leave deep gouges in the ocean floor.
Then, between all the scorch marks and gouges, she saw something different: a few words of text that seemed to have been tattooed on to the fabric, or else burned with a much finer … a much finer what? The Priest
Chantal presented the different products and their possible uses, they were passed from hand to hand, and we made a couple of recipes together (a really tasty spinach and fresh cheese roll, and some gougères, those little cheese puffs).
Get out of my house before I come up and gouge your eyeballs out!
Huge chunks were gouged out of neighbouring tower blocks.
Fortunately, the gouge was in an area covered by a sofa, but you do not want to start arranging your furniture according to your gouges.
Housing shortages permit landlords to gouge their renters.
Wood floors must be adequately protected from damp and soft timbers can be easily gouged by heels, chair legs and animal claws.
In the vein's central vug, ferroaxinite overlies a selvage (fault gouge) of quartz, orthoclase, and microcline feldspar and is followed by fine-grained calcite.
Then came re-tiling and painting to replace the gouges made in the walls when the old pipes were torn out.
After all, not wanting to be gouged is a preference too. The Case for Price Gouging, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The surface may be soft, so be careful not to gouge it with the scraper.
The presence of asphalt would indicate that the right rear rim gouged the pavement during an accident.
You are just being "gouged" because you need it on short notice. The Case for Price Gouging, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Last year I was daft enough to get the guy to help me with the counter top and the clumsy fellow managed to gouge a great chunk out of the kitchen wall.
Hold the nib holder just like you would a pen and push the V gouge along the line.
A musket ball whined past my ear and gouged a furrow in the trunk of a tree.
With gas prices rising and war talk growing, we'll check allegations that price gougers are making you pay more at the pump.
“I notice that you have profited in the past by those very labour gouges you mention,” insinuated Brentwood, one of the wiliest and most astute of our corporation lawyers. THE DREAM OF DEBS
A pod auger requires a starting hole which usually is made with a gouge or chisel.
First to the table will be a little amuse-bouche, perhaps an herbed goat-cheese gougere or a lobster-infused crisp topped with huckleberry. News - chicagotribune.com
As the hours passed, Emily occupied herself by taking mental notes of the objects around her: a wooden table with four thick legs, full of scratches and gouges, sat four feet away.
My lawyer is bringing a suit against him, so maybe we'll be able to gouge something out of him.
What Clinton phrases as a commonplace has not been located in midwifery treatises; Gouge, however, does employ the phrase "The drawing forth of a womans milke by her childe is a means to get and preserve a good stomach, which is a great preservative of good health" (Of Domesticall Duties, L12r). The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie
I demonstrated using the gouge to go over the line drawing on the linoleum's surface.
The writing surface in front of her is gouged from thirty years of insolence and boredom at the hands of the hostile day students.
An uncompromising 1970s makeover had gouged out the windows and buried all stone beneath breeze block, concrete tiles and cement render. Times, Sunday Times
The hoard contained a gold tress-ring, a gold bracelet, two bronze axes, a knife, a gouge, and a stud.
Intense rainfall in the south Kerry area completely gouged out a section of road between Kilgarvan and Bantry, as well as causing large landslides and rockfall over a mile-long stretch.
You just want to make sure that people aren't trying to gouge you in the process.
They owned the league's most punishing running game, one that gouged out nearly five yards per carry.
He had begun to poke his head up to fire at the balcony when a green flash sliced through horns, bridle, and stock, the taut bowstring and fragments of bow whipping back to gouge his arm.
One of the dead animals, a rabbit, had had its eyes gouged out.
He took a knife and gouged a hole in the bottom of the boat.
He took a knife and gouged a hole in the bottom of the boat.
He took a knife and gouged a hole in the bottom of the boat.
The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth embankments.
Every year at budget time, ingenuity is expended on how to gouge more millions out of (present and future) university students.
Long, shallow cuts lined her cheeks and forehead, and at one or two places, there were deep gouges.
So, this is a very difficult situation, and they are trying to stop people like the price gougers and perhaps the looters from making things even worse.
But for a truly memorable cheese moment, serve gougères, the famous cheese puffs of Burgundy.
The gougere turned out perfect - they look wonderful! Recipes to Rival - Appetizers
You can even make gougères, or cheese puffs, by omitting the sugar and adding grated cheese to the dough.
When the M63 motorway was constructed, gravel was extracted from this site and gouged out huge holes.
He met them in the clubs, and wondered how real was the good-fellowship they displayed and how quickly they would unsheathe their claws and gouge and rend. Chapter I
Even the four-course menu includes several starters before the first order is served, beginning modestly with beautifully baked shortbread-like crackers and building to a vegetable-filled gougere, a single oyster and a barely cooked soup served in a small glass with a Parmesan tuille for a lid. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
But for a truly memorable cheese moment, serve gougères, the famous cheese puffs of Burgundy.
Smooth gouges had been made in the floor, cut clean by some immeasurably fine blade in geometric patterns across the lobby floor.
The gravel began to gouge holes in the hard rubber tires of the trucks, and the bumpier rides that resulted led to an increase in the number of mechanical breakdowns.
There was neither ease nor grace as I butchered the edges of the tin lid; deep gouges of torn aluminium and the screech of metal on metal as I twisted the tin round in a stuttered, clumsy motion.
Using the V gouge, carve a different texture or pattern into each triangle.
Some days later he discovered a deep gouge in the paintwork of his car.
The lion's claws had gouged a wound in the horse's side.
Parabolic dunes are formed when the wind causes a blowout, that is, begins to gouge sand out from around a patch of vegetation that has weakened its grip.
If the problem is just a few small dings and gouges, these can be quickly prepared with some wood putty.
An uncompromising 1970s makeover had gouged out the windows and buried all stone beneath breeze block, concrete tiles and cement render. Times, Sunday Times
They typically gouge out classic, bowl-shaped craters.
He tried puttying over the gouges in the flooring that he'd seen the day he took possession, but the putty seemed like a lie to him, less honest than the gouged-out boards were, and so he scooped the putty out and sanded the grooves until they were as smooth as the wood around them. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Do not turn the edger on if the disk is sitting directly on the floor, because you will loose control of the machine and it will leave gouges in your floor.
Are we being gouged when paying top dollar to use roads and rooms which are deteriorating and ignored?
When the skies open up over the desert, watercourses alter, rivers gouge out deep channels and tracks, roads break up, trees are uprooted and our dramatic countryside changes yet again.
The combination of fossils and gouged marks created a metaphoric interplay between fossilized creatures and shelled victims.
Another challenge was to repair the more than 50 holes gouged into the artwork in the 1950s when supports for the drop ceiling and ductwork were simply hammered through the ornate plaster.
Their landing gear gouged huge gashes into the unpaved surface.
She turns her face to me then, looking as if she's ready to gouge my eyes out with the fork in her hand.
A schoolboy told yesterday how a thug headbutted him and tried to gouge out his eyes after he refused to hand over his mobile phone.
The Romans reputedly forded the river a few miles east of Mr Boanas' history-making attempt, but the river is believed to have been marshland then, and without the deep channels gouged out by modern shipping.
Last year I was daft enough to get the guy to help me with the counter top and the clumsy fellow managed to gouge a great chunk out of the kitchen wall.
Each stroke of the blade sent branches crashing into the undergrowth and gouged deep scars into the old oaks.
Old carpet samples or large pieces of cardboard are great for sliding appliances out of position, while at the same time, protecting the floor from gouges or scratches.
Are we being gouged by the cellphone companies?
The ominous mist of dust and sand left by the storm has lifted, and the crevices and gullies that gouge the sides of the mountains stand out in sharp relief.
A police spokesman said that a sharp implement was used to gouge deep scratches in the paintwork of the cars, and some are so badly damaged that they will need to be completely resprayed.
No gouges, slashes, holes, wounds, cuts, not so much as a scrape.
There was a gouge three foot across where the anchor had been winched up, ripping corals out with it.
He has slammed the gougers who damaged the bins within 24 hours of them being put in place.
Roy Shvartzapel, pastry chef at Cyrus, makes his gougere a little differently. SFGate: Top News Stories
He used small gouges to carve little tufts of fur with long, controlled strokes, following the marked lines.
Closer to home, outreach performances in schools, hospitals, and community halls have their own challenges: cracks and gouges, poor surfaces, unshaded outdoor platforms.
Regular inspection helps workers to screen for equipment that may have been weakened by corrosion, leakage, pitting, dents or gouges.
You can even make gougères, or cheese puffs, by omitting the sugar and adding grated cheese to the dough.
I can attest to the fact that the gouge for WiFi roaming is a profit burden, and not much else. Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives
International Prescription Drug Parity; Are Americans Being Protected or Gouged?
Also, fill all dents and gouges with wood putty or patching compound.
With any luck at all, they could sail their fleet of ten little splintered and gouged boats right to the mouth of Back's Great Fish River, pause at the mouth to rerig for river running, and — with only the slightest help from northwest winds and men at the oars — head briskly upstream. The Terror
There were sleigh tracks gouged into the earth, coming very close to the house… it looked like the sleigh had very nearly plowed into the verandah, said Martin.
Witnesses said the blast gouged a hole in the ground and propelled the car about 30 ft.
Gouges or holes in the walls must be repaired with wall board compound, spackle, or patching plaster.
Here we see a room that has been attacked by a mad axeman or a wild monster - gouges in the walls are witness to the violence that has destroyed the house.
I've seen too many of ` em cut up an 'gouged an' chawed not to know. ' Chapter 3: Jackson's Arm
An uncompromising 1970s makeover had gouged out the windows and buried all stone beneath breeze block, concrete tiles and cement render. Times, Sunday Times
There were gouges in the stock and the paint had chipped off the selector switch.
Wood floors must be adequately protected from damp and soft timbers can be easily gouged by heels, chair legs and animal claws.
Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out, one at a time?
On the other side of the moorland was a stretch of twisted rocks, pitted and gouged by the advance and retreat of glaciers long gone. Sick Cycle Carousel
Greater vigilance will be required in the coming months if the gougers are not to succeed.
The big storm last week caused some damage, especially near Coles Corner, where the giant waves gouged a hole in the sea wall and washed out some of the pavement.
Beyond the first wells, roads and land scars gouged by tracked vehicles began accumulating.
Bake in a preheated oven (200 ¼ C / 400 ¼ F / gas mark 6) for 30 minutes or until the gougères have puffed up and are golden brown all over.
His jaw had to be chiseled away at, literally gouged out in an excruciatingly painful operation that took almost an hour.
If the dent is too deep, or the piece is gouged or veneered, you may be able to fill it with a burn-in stick.
But we forgot all about it when a stack of gougères filled with melted Gruyère and smoked ham arrived, followed by a gourmet pulled-pork tortilla spiked with cumin and black-eyed peas.
Most of the nicks, scuffs and gouges that currently mar the work are a result of human carelessness, such as carts and chairs banging into the walls.
And every waking hour she chipped at the ugly block, sanded, scored, chiselled, gouged gaping eye sockets.
The grips seem to be impervious to most chemicals found on a gun cleaning table and don't show the nicks and gouges of hard use like wood or other materials.
And until what's left of our constitution is gouged out, everyone else is free to watch, read, or listen to all the smut they like in the privacy of their own laptops.
gouge out his eyes
By the end of the trip, you'll recognize the gouges clawed by a black bear climbing a tree, and know where to look for the timeworn autographs of lonely shepherds.
But that's 'bout ez liable to happen ez it is fer to go out an 'find a silver dollar rollin' up hill an 'my name gouged in it. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
If the problem is just a few small dings and gouges, these can be quickly prepared with some wood putty.
He gouged her cheek with a screwdriver.
You can even make gougères, or cheese puffs, by omitting the sugar and adding grated cheese to the dough.
A gouge auger is similar, but instead of a screw thread there is a sharp-ended tube with a slot cut in the side.
Most of the nicks, scuffs and gouges that currently mar the work are a result of human carelessness, such as carts and chairs banging into the walls.
An uncompromising 1970s makeover had gouged out the windows and buried all stone beneath breeze block, concrete tiles and cement render. Times, Sunday Times
An uncompromising 1970s makeover had gouged out the windows and buried all stone beneath breeze block, concrete tiles and cement render. Times, Sunday Times
Harmon emphasized her heroin use, which she characterized as a relapse that began about a month before Gouge's death that included up to six bags a day. News
After scooting laboriously out of the surf an hour earlier, the turtle had lurched slowly up the sand to this spot where she used her dinner-plate sized rear flippers to gouge a hole deep enough to swallow a man's arm.
When you are about say an inch from each on both of its turns, work the three-quarter inch gouge, 52, still more guardedly, and barely so deep, and to a very fine point, both curves, ready to receive the two joined pieces of purfling which is to present you with what is called the "Bees 'sting. Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX.
An uncompromising 1970s makeover had gouged out the windows and buried all stone beneath breeze block, concrete tiles and cement render. Times, Sunday Times
An uncompromising 1970s makeover had gouged out the windows and buried all stone beneath breeze block, concrete tiles and cement render. Times, Sunday Times
Sidewalk with a tollbooth: Dan Snyder's latest idea to gouge fans at FedEx Field. Week 888: Make up a word based on someone's name
The patterns were created by bullet-size gouges that recurred as border designs.
CNN need to check the profits of this giant oil company and post it so we can see how much money they have gouged from the american people. Coast Guard admiral says size of oil spill unknown
Rasa kept up a steady chatter as the tiled floors turned to squeaking boards under my feet, the black wood scratched and gouged from the passage of countless clawed feet.
Since any government can only beg, borrow or steal so much subsidized bread, this alimentary welfare effectively creates artificial scarcities and informal markets that can gouge consumers who want more than their rationed quota. Egypt's Backward Turn
Femme Gougeon, as leader of a horde of viragoes, was rushing among them shrieking more fiendishly than ever. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
When I tripped, I had fallen onto a sharp stone, and it had effectively gouged a considerable hole in both my jeans and my knee.
The shocking gouge in the forehead has been filled in and cosmetic surgery has restored the indentation above the eyebrow.
We have also log building tools (scriber, gouge and twibill).
Scratch and gouge both sides of the purse.
The students are cautioned to cut away from themselves because the gouge blades are sharp.
An uncompromising 1970s makeover had gouged out the windows and buried all stone beneath breeze block, concrete tiles and cement render. Times, Sunday Times
The main physical feature of the hill are the two great corries which are gouged out of the eastern flanks of the hill, the dark side of the mountain which is relatively unseen, and unfrequented.
The guards were hammering at a closed door, their weapons taking gouges from the painted wood.
There, fault planes parallel to the fjord display red coloration, red cataclasite in zones up to 10 cm thick, and wide zones of unconsolidated breccia or gouge.
Without warning, without a change of expression or twitch of his body, Alnersans smashed his empty beer up against my end-table, Alnersans then took one of the slivers of glass and gouged out the last of the LEDs, Despite wincing from the pain, Alnersans let out a low chuckle as the glow of the light slowly faded. 365 tomorrows » Jared Axelrod : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
A chisel, two gouges, jewelers' shears, and the plane blade were made in Sheffield.
And while the price of visits, hospital stays and basic laboratory tests are kept artificially low, patients are still gouged.
On his back were four deep, six-inch long gouges on each scapula. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
A musket ball whined past my ear and gouged a furrow in the trunk of a tree.
If you will be topping an existing laminate counter, repair any gouges or loose edges and be sure the existing laminate is glued firmly.
Eighteenth-century tools are very hard to come by, presumably because over the years they have been sharpened into oblivion, so most of Webb's gouges date to the nineteenth century.
The woman's spiked heels gouged out the wooden floor
In between fondues, I tackled a basket of tiny cheese puffs called gougères, a fairly bland steak tartare, and a bowl of delicious escargots sealed in a buttery pastry crust.
Both planes support wide flat chamfers and a step with a cove finished with bold gouge cuts at each end.
They would also have used tools such as planes, axes, adzes, draw knives, wedges, knives, chisels, hammers, mallets, awls, gouges, and spoon augers (a type of drill).
But we forgot all about it when a stack of gougères filled with melted Gruyère and smoked ham arrived, followed by a gourmet pulled-pork tortilla spiked with cumin and black-eyed peas.
Last weekend 22 cyclists suffered head injuries or had gouges taken out of their helmets by the same bird.
Marks from beatings criss-crossed his back, and deep pocks, apparently from electric shock burns, were gouged in his skin.
The Romans reputedly forded the river a few miles east of Mr Boanas' history-making attempt, but the river is believed to have been marshland then, and without the deep channels gouged out by modern shipping.

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