How to Use full bore in a Sentence

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• So this is full bore socialism on the march in the House.
  — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 26 June 2020
• Krantz recalled first coming to work for the town right at the time the food truck controversy was in full bore.
  — Allan Vought, The Aegis, 13 Apr. 2018
• This was just as the drug war was raging and the race to incarcerate was going full bore.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
• Ahead of him, nearly a half-dozen cars had stacked up, trying to spread out to be able to find their own gaps to run a lap at full bore.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2022
• LaVine plans on returning full bore in an attempt to save the season.
  — Jason Patt, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• But there's no confidence that the United States would full bore flow large scale forces to Taiwan and defend it.
  — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2022
• Some events, like next month’s Venice Film Festival in Italy, are going full bore with face masks and a reduced slate.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
• To be sure, America has yet to go full bore into tyranny.
  — Alaric Dearment, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
• The first steady rain drops in Indianapolis began at 5 a.m. By Thursday, the snowfall will be full bore throughout the day.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Feb. 2022
• Why not just get rid of all the pretense and go full bore into fortune telling with astrology?
  — Lawrence Carrel, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• All three would have to sacrifice some measure of control, but in doing so could go full bore more often.
  — The Crossover Staff, SI.com, 5 June 2018
• The investigation then turned full bore on Mays, who denies starting the blaze.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Afghanistan and its neighbor Pakistan are the last two countries where the wild poliovirus is still endemic, and the campaign is going full bore to wipe it out by the end of this year.
  — Byleslie Roberts, science.org, 16 Jan. 2023
• And yet, on the field, in this crazy time at Michigan, with so much uncertainty, only one thing is clear: the Wolverines are suddenly going full bore ahead.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. 2020
• Both scientists have been going full bore ever since, pulling tracking detail once every two weeks and having a good time doing it.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2020
• Tyler Shough got the first-team reps and Anthony Brown worked with the second-team in a quarterback competition that won’t be at full bore until full padded practices begin in the middle of next week.
  — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2020
• With everything in place, the distillery is now running full bore and seems ready to add another chapter to the building’s colorful history.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 30 July 2019
• Instead of resting up for the workweek after going full bore on the ice, Schiffman, a lifelong hockey fanatic, took his playing stick, placed it on his front door step, turned on his porch light, and said a prayer.
  — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Restaurants invested in online sales and delivery, and doctors went full bore into telemedicine.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• The trade war, which went into full bore on Friday, has been an unpopular policy among many inside and outside of Silicon Valley.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 6 July 2018
• While Thursday’s soft opening included basically food and music, things went full bore from Friday through Sunday.
  — David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
• There's an eco setting that reduces power for light cutting while conserving battery life, and six speeds for enough range to make multiple cuts in thin plywood on low to full bore (and maximum blade depth) to cut construction lumber.
  — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2023
• In order to run full bore, cars typically need 100 degrees combined from ambient and track temperature to be certain the Firestone tires are at their optimum grip levels.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2022
• Other big agencies are expected to participate as well, as the media industry and Nielsen appear to move further apart in the debate over how TV viewers ought to be counted in a business that has moved full bore into digital realms.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 15 Sep. 2021
• The company by 2013 had been making storage products for athletics for years, but that year Haubenschild and Spacesaver took it to a new level, going full bore into equipment storage as a targeted market segment.
  — Journal Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2022
• Still, visitor facilities will not be operating at full bore.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2021
• In this relationship, these two are exposed emotionally, spiritually and physically, meeting every fight and frolic at full bore.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• The Trump administration declared a power emergency, allowing power plants to run at full bore, regardless of environmental limits.
  — Brian Eckhouse, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024