How To Use Gushing In A Sentence

The trouble started last Wednesday when we got home to find the overflow pipe gushing water from the side of the house.
I'm a bleeder, someone just has to speak to me sharply and I'm gushing pints, so no blood means hopefully no big deal.
The locals are not gushing with enthusiasm and little wonder. The Sun
She is frisky and good humoured like a bouncy Labrador, gushing with anecdotes punctuated by a laugh, which is a cross between a joyous cackle and a happy crow.
In the front matter of Moby-Dick, William Paley's Natural Theology is quoted: "The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival

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Blood was gushing out of his nose, mouth and eyes. The Sun
With a sudden gushing sound, the fans on the ceiling whirred into movement. DESPERADOES
What better a way to spend a cold winter night than in front of the computer with a bottle of Scotch and box of Kleenex writing gushing adieus to those you love?
The locals are not gushing with enthusiasm and little wonder. The Sun
When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and pastures, it flows down the long avenue leading to the city, trinkling in rills, gushing in fountains, and maintaining a perpetual verdure in those groves that embower and beautify the whole hill of the Alhambra. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
The shark was threshing wildly now as it was brought alongside, crimson blood gushing from its mouth and the open gills slits.
Then, the article starts off with a gushing flashback story about the wonderful world of hockey cards that existed for kids 50 years ago as remembered by an interviewed subject named Brian Price.
Some of them could barely speak, and others couldn't stop gushing about you, and about Buffy.
One of the more gushing newspapers described the occasion as 'a fairy-tale wedding'.
I didn't want to be one of those gushing fans that waxes poetic and overuses the words ‘cool’ and ‘awesome.’
With her bouffant hairdo, elaborate plumage, gushing charm and bright smile she is a caricature of a countess.
Fat and featureless, pink and pincushiony, it was borrowed by gushing maidenhood, exchanged by idiotic maternity, and had grown unctuous and tumefacient under the kisses and embraces of half the hotel. By Shore and Sedge
The locals are not gushing with enthusiasm and little wonder. The Sun
This arrow pierces Menelaus' clothing but does not wound him fatally, even though the blood comes gushing out.
Mount Parnassus, covered the greater part of the year with snow, with its sacred cave, and its Castalian fount gushing forth between two of its lofty rocks. Mosaics of Grecian History
`Not frumpish, not gushing and no more churchy than is strictly necessary. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
There was water gushing out of the stage door and I wondered what on earth was happening in there.
They say that yields of corn, cacao and fruit have dropped dramatically since the oil started gushing.
The fire raged until the outfit slipped beneath the surface. proles were unable to tight off the flow from the well before the set up cost submerged, raising the possibleness that oil sacked be gushing into Gulf waters. WN.com - Photown News
The night went as all sleepovers do, without sleep, and with lots of gushing, giggling, and plain laughter.
Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers when carved; of its little dishes of pastry --- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries. The Uncommercial Traveller
So much he told the seekers in few words; and then while they grovelled on the earth and wept for pure joy, whereas the sun was down and it was beginning to grow dusk, he went and looked around soberly to see if he might find water and any kind of victual; and presently a little down the hillside he came upon a place where a spring came gushing up out of the earth and ran down toward the plain; and about it was green grass growing plentifully, and a little thicket of bramble and wilding fruit-trees. The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
The gushing oil is light, not the heavy crude of the Exxon Valdez spill.
It will pump gushing oil up through a pipe to tankers on the surface, which will ferry the liquid back to land. The Sun
I looked down and blood was gushing. The Sun
One then bit into her neck, sending fake blood gushing down her chest. The Sun
She attempted two or three times to speak, but not a word escaped from her quivering lips; and the tears gushing from her eyes followed each other in quick succession down her cheeks; and, finally, her pent-up feelings found expression in short, convulsive sobs. From Wealth to Poverty
The entire route is marked with bubbling rivulets and gushing waterfalls.
This accustomed visitor would seem a gifted vocalist, but for the inevitable comparison between his thinner note and the gushing melodies of the lordlier bird. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
Unless you have a gold mine paying off, an oil well gushing, or a Broadway agent sugar daddy frosting your billfold, Rupert and his avaricious rubes want little or nothing to do with you.
Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks.
Without gushing about Zeke or raving about Brant, I cut straight to the point.
All of a sudden it was gushing in. Times, Sunday Times
I step outside to take a look and see that the downspout is clogged and water is gushing out of the gutter.
All of a sudden it was gushing in. Times, Sunday Times
This caused a pipe to burst behind the toilet and water began gushing out with enough pressure to pin the stall door shut.
Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks.
The subterranean flames roared and crackled; the hills were shaken to their centre; the caves were heaving in their depths, and fresh, glittering, golden, diamantine lumps came ever gushing from the fused and seething mass. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
The serenity is broken only by the sound of water gushing down the mountain slope.
One can see nature at its best - greenery, farm animals and birds crossing the roads, farmers, harvested paddy being dried on the roads and water gushing out of pumpsets and a lot more.
It was gushing with hot water, just the right temperature, so we stripped-off and luxuriated in a welcome bath, only to be interrupted by a low-flying plane which opened fire on us what cheek! Alan Glass
Why not email me your gushing and unconditional chorizo-breathed praise/snidey, green-eyed jibes for this team of all the talents/team with one extremely well-developed talent on barney. [email protected]. World Cup 2010 live blog: 8 July
They affirm with gushing enthusiasm how much they love what they are doing. Times, Sunday Times
The flare went blasting off horizontally over the ice like a cannonball, gushing its orange smoke. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Vast wildernesses filled with snow-capped mountains, gushing rivers, great lakes and towering fir trees. The Sun
At about the same time, I will be in another plane, bragging about you to my poor seatmates, who will soon put on their headsets, having had enough of a mother's gushing pride.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is angry, environmental officials are worried and BP is trying to accomplish what's being described as corking a gushing soda bottle. KVUE - Home
And, in this ground of sensible love, there dwells the gushing spring, that is, the inpouring or inward working of God, which at every hour moves us and urges us and draws us inward and causes us to flow forth into new works of virtue. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
I have ridden through tears- not just little drippy snivels, but real, gushing, bawling tears.
But even when these songs have heart-rending subject matter, there's usually something uplifting near the surface, delivered without schmaltz or gushing sentimentality.
The video has shots of chicken waste being dumped into the stream and effluent gushing into the river and whipping up white froth that covers the surface of the water.
He writes as if he had rivers of knowledge gushing out of his head under their own momentum.
Much closer to us, another section of the wall had partially collapsed, admitting a gushing torrent of water. hurried back into the groggery. Perseus Spur
Their gushing tears felt like excruciating acid rolling down their dry, discolored, paper cheeks.
a gushing hydrant
Blood was gushing out of his nose, mouth and eyes. The Sun
This is how big ideas are born, with loads of blood and afterbirth and slimy stuff gushing from my man-cooze. The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : People say I’m obnoxious and self-centered, but frankly I just don’t see it
Fire bloomed and ate voraciously into the enemy ranks, sending screaming soldiers gushing fire like Gondoan candles fleeing blindly from the carnage, yet still they boiled from the passes.
Without dramatic visuals of a volcano of crude gushing from the bottom of the sea, there were other stories to pursue. Rocky Kistner: Six Months Later, an Oil Disaster Spreads Across the Gulf
After the game the vast majority of experts and pundits were gushing in their praise of the official.
The fear was that oil would continue gushing when the rig sank. Times, Sunday Times
The young mother was gushing over a baby.
The young mother was gushing over a baby.
The carvers at Kilpeck also linked the Tree of Life carved on the tympanum with identical foliage gushing from the Green Man on the capital directly below.
But now they're also realizing the power of this gushing water can be harnessed to produce electricity.
She then went on to talk gushingly about the joys of a meritocracy - a society in which people are rewarded on the basis of merit, rather than on any other basis.
One then bit into her neck, sending fake blood gushing down her chest. The Sun
The young mother was gushing over a baby.
As the oil continues gushing from the sea floor, hurricane season is only four weeks away. CNNMoney.com: The risks and rewards of offshore drilling
The burst main in Market Street sent water gushing out on to the road in Low Street and into nearby businesses on Wednesday.
Other complaints include a pipe gushing water for a year; no security lights and uneven paving.
All of a sudden it was gushing in. Times, Sunday Times
The new tank, which was lowered into place by a huge crane, will help prevent flood water overflow and untreated sewage gushing into the River Blackwater.
The flare went blasting off horizontally over the ice like a cannonball, gushing its orange smoke. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
His acceptance speech involves gushing about Brad Pitt, being generally charming, and thanking Michael Fassbender for all his full-frontal nudity. Lelia Nebeker: Golden Globes Rundown: Come and Get It, Woody
She couldn't help but smile at the group of fifteen year old girls gushing about how cute the lead dancer was.
Blood was gushing from Mary Jane's arm, the humeral artery cut. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
He had blood gushing from wounds to his head, neck and both sides of his lower body. The Sun
The fear was that oil would continue gushing when the rig sank. Times, Sunday Times
Behold the maiden on her way, the destroyer of Ilium's town and its Phrygians, with garlands twined about her head, and drops of lustral water on her, soon to besprinkle with her gushing blood the altar of a murderous goddess, what time her shapely neck is severed. Iphigenia at Aulis
It was a still balmy night as I have remarked earlier and when the engine of the scooter ceased to growl, the void it left in its wake was immediately usurped by a gushing wave of silence and total noiselessness.
I looked down and blood was gushing. The Sun
So he engaged in a literary crusade to bring it back to the public eye and accomplished his goal after gushing about it in an article he wrote for Harper's in '96.
Now we were driving through bleak glens with stunted conifers, gushing ice-melt streams and mist snagged in tattered veils on the crags like the wraiths of lost warriors.
He had blood gushing from wounds to his head, neck and both sides of his lower body. The Sun
I looked down and blood was gushing. The Sun
Wade, is it true that you had eaten barbecue, were throwing up over people, had a broken arm, and it was gushing blood, all while you were playing?
Their gushing tears felt like excruciating acid rolling down their dry, discolored, paper cheeks.
Tanaghrisson came forward, tomahawked Jumonville, and tore his brain out of his head, blood gushing. George Washington’s First War
Opposition Web sites and television channels, which Iranians view with satellite dishes, have repeatedly shown the video, in which blood can be seen gushing from Ms. Agha-Soltan’s body as she dies.
Here the old man paused, and resting upon his staff, raised his age-dimmed eyes, and pointing to the gushing water, said, _'E questo si chiama il Tevere a Roma! ' Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
They affirm with gushing enthusiasm how much they love what they are doing. Times, Sunday Times
He has presided over the greatest redistribution of wealth since the 1960s, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, yet is offered gushing praise by the right wing Institute of Directors.
When I visit America, I see water gushing out of taps, left open while people chat.
He disdains the communal gushing and deifying, "the fetishistic veneration," while nurturing a private, though complicated, affection. The uneasy namesake
I had long ago dispensed with my Southern childhood habit of gushing, cooing out words wrapped in molasses. SUMMER OF SECRETS
Some of their comments are insightful and interesting, but like many filmmakers they fall into the trap of gushing effusive praise about everyone they worked with.
BP Plc "impeded" efforts to kill an out-of-control well in the Gulf of Mexico by underestimating the amount of oil gushing into the water, the staff of a presidential panel investigating the disaster said in a report. BP Gulf-Leak Estimates Slowed Efforts to Kill Well, Report Says - Bloomberg
In your dreaming state, you are quick about everything, just as the streams are so quick when in the mountains, the rivulets, the brooklets are so quick and so rapid, so gushing, and so playful.
I didn't want to be one of those gushing fans that waxes poetic and overuses the words ‘cool’ and ‘awesome.’
Shamelessly crammed with gushing film-makers, the making-of featurette fails to tell us where all these musings came from. Times, Sunday Times
The Dragonspawn stood with hands outflung, eyes gushing wrath on Garm. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
I just barely managed to throw my mother the phone when the previously eaten food made its bid for freedom and escaped in a loud gushing, splosh.
Yet almost everything he wrote about Stalin's Soviet Union takes the form of adulatory, gushing hymns to Stalin.
But because I care, I wanted to extend a hand and help you out of that leaky rain barrel before you go (and take others who would emulate you with you), like some gushing honeymooner or P.T. Barnumesque daredevil, completely over the water's edge. Deep-Hearted
The young mother was gushing over a baby.
He was confident but not brash and open without being too gushing. The Sun
She gave an embarrassingly gushing acceptance speech.
Harvey is given to name-dropping, idealistic stream of consciousness rambles, sentence fragments and gushing enthusiasm.
Perhaps in that moment I saw myself the way victims of my public gushing must when you read all this sugary sap about how happy we are.
It will pump gushing oil up through a pipe to tankers on the surface, which will ferry the liquid back to land. The Sun
Sean: Were you trying not to let any gushing fangirlism seep into the review? Archive 2008-06-01
In a year she goes from gushing schoolgirl to gymslip intellectual. Times, Sunday Times
It wasn't exactly a gushing torrent, but in retrospect maybe it was crucial. Times, Sunday Times
I couldn't - physically couldn't - sit here and take Matt gushing over his romantic interludes with Jessica.
a gushingly prolific writer
He collapsed with blood gushing from his wounds. The Sun
Elsewhere, a rhapsody about Roughgarden's own experience as an embryo turns gushingly cosmic.
It is the reason why the wildcatter, the independent oilman whose test drillings might come up dry 20 times before gushing in the end, is an enduring Texas symbol.
By now, it was at the bottom of the hill, blood gushing from its wounds, its anger now a frantic fury.
He said this could result in up to 1.7 million gallons of oil a day gushing into the Arctic throughout the winter. Times, Sunday Times
I've seen bleeders, and they're gushing because they got hit right in the vein, and I mean they're almost passing out, and here comes the supply guy again, with the bleach, to clean the blood off the floor, but the chain never stops.
He was a giving person … the talent that was there and the love that exuberated from him when you were around him is something that will be greatly missed, especially by those like myself and my family who really knew the real Michael. "sisterly gushing didn't stop there. E! Online (US) - Top Stories
But because I care, I wanted to extend a hand and help you out of that leaky rain barrel before you go (and take others who would emulate you with you), like some gushing honeymooner or P.T. Barnumesque daredevil, completely over the water's edge. Deep-Hearted
A flip of the switch sent water gushing out.
As the last aircraft began to taxi, when the F - 16 pilot throttled up his engine, fuel began gushing from the left wing fuel vent.
He was confident but not brash and open without being too gushing. The Sun
He said this could result in up to 1.7 million gallons of oil a day gushing into the Arctic throughout the winter. Times, Sunday Times
What seemed like a shower of bullets ripped into the woman's body, sending spurts of crimson blood gushing out at every direct hit.
He had blood gushing from wounds to his head, neck and both sides of his lower body. The Sun
Mr Emerick, who lives in Woodfalls, said that, in the children's spa, there is a narrow channel with gushing water and the corners are at head height with right-angled tiled corners.
It is thought that it was they who first controlled the famous Fontaine Chaude, with its waters gushing out at a constant 64°C, that now stands in the centre of the town.
Blood was gushing out of his nose, mouth and eyes. The Sun
Only as long as I keep my finger upon this artery stop the blood gushing out.
Young mothers are gushing over their babies.
What was once a sluggish, silted and overgrown stream has been transformed into a gushing torrent thanks to the hard work of a conservation team.
Admittedly, some marketing people are uncritically gushing in their admiration of the Emperor's new Paco Rabanne coat.
The chopper rolled over the top of the aircraft, gushing fuel and fire as it tumbled.
A needle pricked her arm and Diana felt her blood gushing into the little tube that was attached to the sharp needle.
The actual dinner was fine and the views worthy of all the gushings generated by the copywriter in the brochure we'd picked up earlier that week.
Nearby, the Huka Falls are gushing forth, the sulphurous earth steams eerily and sludgy geysers are grumbling and occasionally completely losing their cool.
At the risk of sounding like a gushing school girl, it is super exciting to report that one of the most interesting bands currently making pop music, The Clientele, are in the studio recording a new album!
One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement.
Nearby, the Huka Falls are gushing forth, the sulphurous earth steams eerily and sludgy geysers are grumbling and occasionally completely losing their cool.
With her bouffant hairdo, elaborate plumage, gushing charm and bright smile she is a caricature of a countess.
The villagers died when petrol gushing out of the vandalised pipeline in a rural region in the south-east of the country caught fire.
One then bit into her neck, sending fake blood gushing down her chest. The Sun
When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and parterres, it flows down the long avenue leading to the city, tinkling in rills, gushing in fountains, and maintaining a perpetual verdure in those groves that embower and beautify the whole hill of the Alhambra. The Alhambra
Perhaps the rich palette of musical veins gushing out in Beloslava's songs are in some way connected to the many countries she has visited.
The villagers died when petrol gushing out of the vandalised pipeline in a rural region in the south-east of the country caught fire.
He could hear Joe working the handle of the sluice that would send water gushing into the other troughs.
He said this could result in up to 1.7 million gallons of oil a day gushing into the Arctic throughout the winter. Times, Sunday Times
Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks.
He collapsed with blood gushing from his wounds. The Sun
On either side of the path was a massive green field and, within each field, there was a single, pristine white fountain gushing with thick torrents of water.
You have had experience of the old - established Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers, when carved; of its little dishes of pastry -- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries. The Uncommercial Traveller
Many residents were woken by the deafening sound of the exploding pipe and water gushing down the street and into their houses.
It was that void; that gushing nothingness which she so feared.
He said this could result in up to 1.7 million gallons of oil a day gushing into the Arctic throughout the winter. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than gushing down a lush mountainside, the headwaters of the river seen in The Source puddle prosaically beside a suburban high school.
To serve, slit the haggis down the middle and spoon the gushing entrails on to warmed plates with the clapshot and a wee dram or two.
a large gushing female
Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer for exploration and production, said it was impossible to know just how much oil was gushing from the well, but said the company and federal officials were preparing for the worst-case scenario. Gulf oil spill swiftly balloons, may move east
And Michael gushing over getting props from a Beatle. Golden Globe Awards 2010: The MTV Live Blog! » MTV Movies Blog
The fear was that oil would continue gushing when the rig sank. Times, Sunday Times
The trouble started last Wednesday when we got home to find the overflow pipe gushing water from the side of the house.
He collapsed with blood gushing from his wounds. The Sun
I hesitantly stepped into the kitchen, fully expecting to see the water gushing out from a crack in the ceiling.
Some of them have mineral springs loaded with curataive powers gushing from the rocks. Hillary Clinton nursing fractured elbow
It will pump gushing oil up through a pipe to tankers on the surface, which will ferry the liquid back to land. The Sun
The authors refer to this as the "gushing phenomenon" that led western journalists to "gush" over the fall of Baghdad and later the transfer of "sovereignty" in the country's "first democratic elections in 50 years in January, 2005. Reviewing David Cromwell and David Edwards' "Guardians of Power"
They affirm with gushing enthusiasm how much they love what they are doing. Times, Sunday Times
The two men were a mutual admiration society , gushing about how much they were learning from each other.
Each page of each calendar was overprinted with the gushing words: ‘It's sunny today in South Africa'.
It's not the fact that you used the word badass, the entire first paragraph is you gushing about it. Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2 Gets Another Badass Teaser Poster « FirstShowing.net
They don't kill strangers for the ghoulish glee of gushing blood, the drama of domination. Times, Sunday Times
What he meant was he was having a month long word enema that is now gushing out of his bumpipe. 7th March 2005
The trio were doing their best to be helpful, but young blokes are not renowned for their communication skills and this, combined with 14 months' worth of tour fatigue, didn't make for the most gushing of chats.
Heard in the context of his and Holly's gushing sympathy, it sounded very like the truth.
Now we were driving through bleak glens with stunted conifers, gushing ice-melt streams and mist snagged in tattered veils on the crags like the wraiths of lost warriors.
Mr. Arroyo said fuel was gushing from the craft and his concern was to get the occupants out, fearing a fire would ignite. Plane Crash on Long Island Kills One
It refers actually to the torrential rain, which came not only from rainclouds but also fell back to earth after gushing out of the subcrustal springs. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
A cheque submitted without fuss or fanfare would prove their real commitment to the cause but would not, of course, garner as many gushing puff pieces or adoring photographs.
I'm subjecting an actor to my gushing appraisal of his work when it becomes obvious that he and another actor are about to blow a doobie.
In front of the museum is a fountain with neoclassic statues and gushing water. The Memory Palace
It wasn't exactly a gushing torrent, but in retrospect maybe it was crucial. Times, Sunday Times
The strongest opinion she will offer - during a long conversation peppered with rather gushing remarks about her ‘hugely interesting job’ - is that she detests reality television.
Once this had been a forested and watered land with cool, blue, springs glistering in the caves, trickling out of the fissures, cutting ravines with their silver, gushing, flow.
With some skin flapping and the blood gushing, I realized that a simple Band-Aid wouldn’t suffice. Good fortune soup for the New Year | Homesick Texan

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