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Six example sentences with gouge, each labelled with its topic.
A deep gouge runs across the lobby's terrazzo where a delivery pallet was dragged instead of lifted onto a cart.
Architecture
Conservators filled a gouge in the panel with tinted wax before anyone could photograph the painting for the catalog.
Art
Raking light from the left revealed every gouge in the old desk, turning scratches into ridges across the frame.
Photography
A deep gouge on the cello's back dates from a train journey, and the luthier decided it was safer to leave it.
Music
The glacier left a gouge in the granite where a trapped boulder was dragged along the bedrock for centuries.
Science
The rental company photographed a gouge on the car door before we left, which saved an argument at the return.
Travel
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