How to Use gouge out in a Sentence

gouge out

verb

• Tile work and court paintings at historical sites were vandalized, the eyes of past royals gouged out.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
• To gouge out the parasitic pillager, the doctors performed a pars plana vitrectomy—a procedure that involves sucking out some of the jelly-like vitreous inside the eye.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
• The butterflies have been making this migration for as long as 20 millennia, once finding paths to and from the fields gouged out by glaciers retreating with the spring during the last Ice Age.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
• The violence is psychological and rarely fatal, in marked contrast to that in Sophocles’s work (in other words, nobody gouges out their eyes after having mistakenly slept with their own mother).
  — Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
• Fueled by vengeance and cunning ambition, Ashur rises from betrayal and bloodshed to seize power, gouging out a place for the House of Ashur in a new arena full of violence, desire, and twisted loyalty.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
• While in custody, Dale Grogan reportedly began exhibiting increasingly erratic and self-destructive behavior, attempting to gouge out his own eyes while being held in the county jail, prompting deputies to intervene and transport him under guard to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment.
  — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025