How to Use gross-out in a Sentence

gross-out

1 of 2 noun

• At the risk of spoiling the film’s big and best gross-out scenes, look out for the rat.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
• Still, the swearing and gross-out humor loses its bite after a while.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• What was the shower like after stripping off the gross-out clothing?
  — Danielle Sepulveres, Outside Online, 26 July 2021
• The gross-outs in the middle of the movie are much more effective than anything at the end.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 May 2024
• The moment in the movie that people can’t stop talking about is not one of the jump scares or gross-out shots.
  — Time, 16 Apr. 2025
• The title of this gross-out screwball bro-comedy pretty much says it all.
  — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
• If the gross-out gags are hilarious, a streamer or studio will pounce.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
• With few exceptions, all the other students had shrieked in fear and had, from then on, called her gross-out or bug-girl.
  — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
• So there's gross-out stuff with the worms, ghostly things, psychological thriller type of stuff, etc.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• Its gross-out factor continues to delight.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026
• And, while the frenetic action is mostly played for laughs, the gross-out gore hits impressive highs, or should that be lows?
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
• More central than the gross-out factor is a wry statement of disability pride, a reminder that swagger needn’t be skin-deep.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
• Best and Last, with the latest entry in the gross-out comedy franchise heading for a fourth-place finish.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2026
• This one laid the groundwork for an entire genre with its gross-out gags, copious substance abuse, and rousing victory at the end.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 31 July 2026
• The many physically revolting and morally repellent acts that ensue amount to little but a gross-out joke.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
• The movie’s body-horror gross-outs might not have played with Globes or Oscar voters in another era, but these days, anything goes.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
• There are more traditional flavors, such as blue raspberry, but relabeled for gross-out delight.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026
• Raimi indulges Send Help’s gore and gross-out moments with the zest of someone returning to his cult-favorite roots.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
• In another gross-out scene, Audrey projectile-vomits in a nightclub.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• In this case, the mood is way more gonzo, straddling the line between gross-out comedy and Grand Guignol gore-mongering.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
• The problem is that a wee sip of this skit-like enterprise goes a very long way, and Corirossi’s wanna-be cult classic over-serves us with gross-out comedy.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
• Our list of stunts includes an array of stealthy food swaps, suspicious shoe gags, bath time switcheroo and plenty of gross-out humor (from faux doggie doo to imposter creepy crawlies).
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
• Make the Audience Heave Remember when gross-out movies were lowbrow comedies?
  — Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
• Its lumbering, gross-out finale, in particular, is a problem, not so much blasting past the limits of good taste as grinding away at achieving bad taste.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024
• From the opening seconds, the director goes full Kubrick, ratcheting up the creepiness until the gross-out climax comes as a relief.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
• The comic has gained notice on the long-running NBC late-night series for bizarre humor that blends gross-out jokes with a taste for the absurd.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
• But in her apparent eagerness to stuff all manner of ideas, themes, and gross-out scenes into the body-horror joint, James can lose sight of the real meat of her tale.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
• There’s plenty of the gross-out jokes and barrier-breaking humor that’s Farrelly’s signature.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
• The idea of combining the cleaner elements of a gross-out comedy with horror, action and other summer movie thrills pretty much reset the board.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• Raimi shows an even higher threshold for gross-out humor — no small feat, considering Östlund’s epic seasickness sequence.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026

gross out

2 of 2 verb

• So get put that shovel on your shoulders and try not to be too grossed out.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 July 2026
• Keltner seems to be grossed out by his go-to smoothie as much as viewers.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Oct. 2025
• Eventually, you get grossed out by the person.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025
• Darcey continued heaving in the car, which left Georgi grossed out.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
• Valerie Bertinelli isn’t grossed out by a little dog slobber.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025
• Some would touch it and get grossed out, while others became determined to figure out what was underneath his skin.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
• Moist may be the seminal example, but there are certainly other words that people get grossed out by.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
• Everyone is universally grossed out.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
• Further complications ensue as Wyatt and Kai’s flirtation escalates in ways that are supposed to make viewers feel uncomfortable, but not grossed out.
  — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
• Gilda Radner first grossed out Jane Curtin with her iconic Weekend Update reporter with a geometric wig in 1977.
  — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026