How to Use gush in a Sentence

gush

1 of 2 verb
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  • Oil gushed from the well.
  • Blood gushed from the wound.
  • I'm tired of hearing her gush about her boyfriend.
  • Everyone has been gushing over the baby.
  • Fans flocked to the comments to gush over the cute couple moment.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 24 June 2023
  • Since the weekend, both Bolden and Carter have gushed about their time on The Plains.
    — Ainslie Lee | [email protected], al, 31 July 2023
  • Shoppers couldn't help but gush over the quality of the shoes.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
  • On Twitter, The Last of Us fans gushed about the surprise pairing.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Most of the Amazon’s water gushes northward, the shortest route to the sea.
    — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
  • Weeks from the live action when the games matter, hope is gushing about now.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • When to get help Get help if a wound is large, gaping, or gushing blood.
    — Stacey Colino, Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Black gold had been gushing there since the nineteen-twenties, and a sulfurous odor hung in the air.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Young people just aren’t going to gush about an 80-year-old man.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The new mom then switched gears and gushed about how great her growing family is.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Physicists will have to shield the machinery from the electrons and positrons gushing from the beams as the muons decay.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
  • His family and strangers alike still gush over the beauty and meaning of BOTH rings.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Legend gushed about the performance that added a rocking edge to the 1974 classic.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
  • When the movie swept through the awards season, movie critics and cinephiles gushed over Quan's comeback story.
    — Emilie De Sainte Maresville, ABC News, 26 May 2023
  • Display the glazed stoneware at a Galentine’s Day brunch for everyone to gush over.
    — Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Browse them and take notes, or simply gush over the pretty buildings and landscapes.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 1 July 2023
  • Fans and friends in the comments could not stop gushing over Bailey’s look for the festival.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 18 July 2023
  • The Love on the Brain singer went on to gush about her partner and their rock-solid relationship.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2023
  • And as the finances of the tech world teetered, more than $3 billion came gushing into Brex’s accounts.
    — Time, 9 July 2023
  • Fans in the comments section gushed over how happy and healthy the Mean Girls actresses looked in the pictures.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 13 July 2023
  • All of a sudden a paddle falls right on my face causing my lips to just start gushing blood.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Speaking to Essence in 2020, Allen gushed about her family.
    — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Since then, the duo has often gushed about each other on social media.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Those two selves collide, like plates on a fault line, and what gushes out are all the molten emotions the man has spent his whole life stuffing down.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 June 2023
  • Many of the comments on her post praised her for taking Harper under her wing and couldn't stop gushing over how sweet the two of them are.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The coaches all gush over her ability to tell the story of the song both with her vocals and her body language even at just 17 years old.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2022
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gush

2 of 2 noun
  • A gush of oil came out of the well.
  • Go ahead, clobber him in the head and watch the blood gush.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The cycle goes on, as does the gush of activism and giving.
    — Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023
  • But the news released a gush of emotion that stunned even him.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The water is fresh and beautiful, like the first gush of life.
    — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 24 May 2018
  • Cut the square in half and the custard inside doesn’t so much gush as tremble.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
  • There was no gush of blood from the abdomen, and my own heart rate slowed a little.
    — W Roy Smythe, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2014
  • The welcome gush of moisture earlier in the week had soaked in.
    — Dana Coffield, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
  • At times, waste gathered in her bathtub, or came out of faucets in a black gush.
    — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Watch Brown gush over Cyrus, Winehouse and the rest of her heroines below.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Those closer to the NFL admired Moore’s football mind but didn’t quite gush over it the way his fans did.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The bear also bit into his head and a gash above his ear caused a massive amount of blood gush.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Some bodies have been carried far away from their villages by the gush of mud and earth.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The Olympian gush-fest will only strengthen that status quo.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • But the surge in students — and with that, a gush of revenue — did not pan out as Flynn and her colleagues hoped.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Blood Falls, named for its ruddy color, is not in fact a gush of blood from some unseen wound.
    — National Geographic, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Access has in many ways been terrific so far—and that’s not even counting the gush of leaks.
    — Seth Stevenson, Slate Magazine, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Cracking through the crispy batter to find a still-runny yolk gush out over your rice is a wild pleasure.
    — Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
  • When Zainab’s massive cargo plane landed and slid along the tarmac, the doors opened and a gush of hot air rushed over the evacuees.
    — Zahra Nader, Time, 20 Aug. 2021
  • At that moment, a massive gush of water splashes over the deck.
    — Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Blood Falls, named for its ruddy color, is not in fact a gush of blood from some unseen wound.
    — Delaney Chambers, National Geographic, 29 Apr. 2017
  • There was no sound except the grind of tires on gravel, the gush of a May breeze and the occasional call of sentinel quail.
    — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 30 May 2022
  • And when a major storm like the remnant of Ida hits, rivers of rainwater gush into the subway.
    — Errol Louis, CNN, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Naturally, they were asked about their new nephew, and the couple couldn't help but gush.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 8 May 2019
  • In the background thrummed the queasy, slo-mo gush of those Angelo Badalamenti chords.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 May 2017
  • And then, why did the creative gush of those 10 years essentially dry up?
    — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2020
  • So the idea of helping the leader of the free world gush about the 2016 champs — a team that had eliminated the Caps en route to the Cup — felt downright profane.
    — Stephen Krupin, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Marine Vacth, in midnight Chanel, couldn’t help but gush about getting the chance to work with the famed French director.
    — Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2018
  • In the ad's dramatic climax, a gush of water douses the fire and the threat is extinguished.
    — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • But don’t expect a gush of businesses listing their shares this year.
    — Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023

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