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Example sentences for "gashing"

Lexicographically close words:
gaseous; gases; gash; gashed; gashes; gashly; gasholder; gasket; gaskets; gaslight
  1. They came from the sisters and female relatives of Mahto-Tatonka, who were gashing their limbs with knives, and bewailing the death of Henry Chatillon's squaw.

  2. Arabs, fertility of crosses with other races; gashing of cheeks and temples among the.

  3. I wondered that the gashing did not kill the trees, as some of the largest were marked with half-a-dozen cuts from the ground to the fork.

  4. We heard the blows of the axe echoing in the hot silence of the mid-day, and made our way to whence the sound proceeded, speedily descrying the workman, perched upon a slight bending ladder, gashing the tree.

  5. In one of the battles of the Crimea, a cannon-ball struck inside a fort, gashing the earth and sadly marring the garden beauty of the place.

  6. Its rude share ploughs again and again through it, making many a deep furrow, gashing its beauty.

  7. They are used for gashing the trees in tapping them for rubber milk, and they also serve as weapons in the hands of the Indians.

  8. They howl and wail, beating their breasts rhythmically, keeping time with their feet, tearing their hair and gashing their faces with sharp flints, cutting off also their long locks and trampling upon them with piteous cries.

  9. Among savage peoples grief for the dead expresses itself in a variety of violent ceremonies of mourning, such as wailing, and cutting and gashing the body.

  10. The most widely diffused of such customs of initiation is the gashing or the complete removal of the prepuce.

  11. She saw Ramon totter and fall--but before falling turn on the dastardly murderer, and with hand already half paralysed by oncoming death, deal him a deep and gashing wound .

  12. He struck with ferocious vigour at his powerful opponent and inflicted a gashing wound upon his left arm--the dagger penetrated to the bone, cutting flesh and muscle through from wrist to elbow.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gashing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.