adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gory details (= full details about an unpleasant or interesting event – often used humorously )
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She wanted to hear all the gory details about Tina's date with Nigel.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
detail
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However, 44% of you feel that these reports should leave the gory details out and 39% feel they encourage copycat crimes.
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Log on and get the gory details .
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The children loved the ship and gory details of life aboard.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The book's descriptions of the killings were unbelievably gory .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Forget the stories about chivalrous knights and the clash of arms - it was one gory , blood-spattered mess.
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He had his friend grab the dead man by the hair and raise the gory head off the ground, brains dripping.
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However, 44% of you feel that these reports should leave the gory details out and 39% feel they encourage copycat crimes.
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It is like a simmering volcano that occasionally throws up spurts of gory violence.
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It is, at times, too gory for kids.
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She returned to her gory work, which had become less disturbing than her conversations with von Stein.
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The regiment halted amidst a gory , ghastly scene.