gush - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • water: During one, I felt a gush of hot water all over my legs, like a large water balloon bursting.
  • fluid: As I lay there letting the contractions course through me I felt a pop and then the gush of fluid as my water broke.

Modifying Another Word

  • n't: My mother, tho Welsh, often told me, ' I ca n't gush.
  • still: Its position was changed in Victorian times, but water still gushes there from a mossy lion's mouth.
  • then: Even if the high waters then gush over the new bank, there is a drainage ditch behind it to catch the overflow.

Object

  • stream: Our front street was a gushing wide stream 4 inches deep.
  • river: The it's into the forested terrain crossing gushing rivers before our descent to camp at Las Torres.
  • blood: Like Wendy, we are supposed to see the ghosts and the elevator gushing blood and we're supposed to react.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • over: Improve your wine knowledge Was the waiter describing the Cabernet or the carpet when he gushed over its " velvety texture?

Modifying Another Word

  • forth: SHAKIR: In both of them are two springs gushing forth.
  • not: We failed dismally to make it on the DVD by not gushing suitably.
  • too: I don't want to sound too gushing, but I really cannot express the service you provided without doing so.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • out: What I'd heard was the water gushing out through the gap.
  • down: On the day of the visit, water was gushing down from burst pipes.
  • up: Water gushing up from a spray fountain is given an added vitality.

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