Rips off

Usage examples of gouges.

Long gouges were ripped from the skin, oozing ichor that was churning dirt into a hideously viscous mud.

Only the stubs of the heavy-duty plastic column remained, and gouges proved they had been subjected to treatment its designer had never envisaged.

The frame of the chair was bent in his hands, but only gouges showed on the surface.

Tubelin washed down his legs, while Zainal did his own arms: both used some degree of care for the gouges and slices that were visible were also genuine, if realistically enlarged.

The structure had once been partitioned into sections and there were distinct gouges in the tough material of the floor to indicate that large permanent objects had rested here and there.

When she saw the dents and gouges on its surface she was too shocked to speak.

A horse going to its knees, a ragged swath cut by Jessica’s body, and the deep gouges where Wolfe’s big mare had plunged down the slope.

What she could see of the jade’s surface appeared unblemished, with neither cracks nor chips nor gouges to mar the even flow of stone.

The surface of the ruined door was like a road map of chaos – dents, scrapes, lines, gouges, pits, everything that a violent, debris-packed storm could do to metal.

Chang gouges Len on the illegal goods to the point that Len barely has enough to survive on and keep Pearl Cove going.

He found out how the gouges were made when his right hand slipped and raked over the vault.

The thick, rough wood of the U-shaped bench showed the nicks, gouges, and burns common on a jewelry designer’s work surface.

Too late: the beast's claws raked deep gouges across the bulldog's nose.

Sheltering beneath it, in the lee of one of is vast metal runners, standing beside one of the parallel gouges in the ice that marked its journey, we debated out next move.

From there we watched the rakshassi milling around the temple, whose runners had cut deep gouges in the carpet.