How to Use gross-out in a Sentence

gross-out

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
  • The gross-outs in the middle of the movie are much more effective than anything at the end.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 May 2024
  • What was the shower like after stripping off the gross-out clothing?
    Danielle Sepulveres, Outside Online, 26 July 2021
  • Still, the swearing and gross-out humor loses its bite after a while.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • So there's gross-out stuff with the worms, ghostly things, psychological thriller type of stuff, etc.
    Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The usual scarcities in modern screen comedy: visual finesse and some wit to go with the gross-out stuff.
    cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But that's how Bridesmaids director Paul Feig said he was made to feel in the weeks and months leading up to the gross-out comedy's 2011 release.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • There’s gross-out horror where someone covers their eyes.
    Vulture, 2 Mar. 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 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
  • 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
  • In an email exchange with The Takeout regarding the gross-out factor of his bit, gazpachomachine, who goes by Gaz, lends credence to the critics.
    Jonathan Dale / The Takeout, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Now the man known for gross-out is the subject of an exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Make the Audience Heave Remember when gross-out movies were lowbrow comedies?
    Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The film contains one of the great gross-out scenes of all time, in which Adjani has a bloody, violent miscarriage in a Berlin subway station and slams her body around as if in the throes of an exorcism.
    The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The loving strand of gross-out humor running through Yang’s work — one of his first graphic novels involves a spaceship flying up a kid’s nose — owes something to Ah-Tong.
    Jamie Fisher, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • 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
  • Following her son on a date to the zoo, Vera is bitten by the creature, and cannibalism, necrophilia, and other gross-out acts of gore ensue.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But the bond between the four women — and occasional lack thereof — demands repeat viewing much more than the sporadic shocks of gross-out (and grapefruit) humor.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
  • Allison and Jason are led from one lethal gross-out game to the next, each a sick-joke parody of some first-date activity that people who met online might engage in.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Here are the 10 best zombie movies on Netflix right now, from raunchy comedies to character dramas and gross-out extravaganzas.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • But this Dead Ringers isn’t just a gross-out examination of the dehumanizing way that Western medicine treats childbirth.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • In another gross-out scene, Audrey projectile-vomits in a nightclub.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • Streaming on Prime from March 7, the movie might tap into the nostalgia of audiences raised on the Farrelly brand of goofy raunch, gross-out laughs, slapstick, escalating chaos and sticky sentiment.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
  • At Sundance, where the film premiered, audience members reportedly walked out in sizable numbers, turned off by the film’s myriad gross-outs.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024

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