How to Use gnash in a Sentence

gnash

verb
  • The remaining eight were left to gnash their teeth on the shore.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 31 May 2026
  • In the past decade these experts have been gnashing their teeth at his proof.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
  • As night fell, rain began, the sea got rougher, and the planks of the hull gnashed against each other.
    — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • If Corbett wins the job and plays well, all the teeth-gnashing over the pick was for naught.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 15 July 2019
  • Despite that increase, there’s bad news for those poor souls who wring their hands and gnash their teeth over trade deficits.
    — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • To champ is to gnash or bite or chew at something, especially when a horse does it.
    — June Casagrande, Burbank Leader, 15 Aug. 2019
  • People gnashed their teeth and complained, but Valve’s vision won in the end.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Not to wallow, or gnash my teeth, or cry woe and sadness about the whole situation.
    — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The level of tension in this film reaches teeth-gnashing levels.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Try to get the image of gnashing teeth out of your mind, climb the railing, and jump off the bridge into the ocean below.
    — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2016
  • There has been plenty of teeth gnashing and finger-pointing in those big-city baseball markets.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 2 May 2026
  • So true, and so sad, but to gnash one’s teeth about the need for a Washington presence is like yelling at the scoreboard.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Oh, how the liberal gatekeepers gnash their teeth at my provocations!
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 21 Apr. 2018
  • In response, traditionalists have gnashed their teeth and complained that the dark essence of the music has been lost.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Which would make a nice change of pace from the collective teeth-gnashing in FoCo lately.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
  • With goat horns, gnashing teeth and a long tongue to taste one's sins, Krampus is nothing short of horrifying.
    — Deena Prichep, NPR, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Meanwhile, there was much gnashing and wailing around Nvidia ’s big 9% drop yesterday.
    — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024
  • But for all the teeth-gnashing from Messrs Ryan and McConnell, this deal suited them too.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • An unholy chatter fills the soundtrack and what appears to be dozens upon dozens of shiny black bugs squirming and gnashing as each other.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
  • All this Merkel-like gnashing about global warming has accomplished nothing.
    — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 12 Dec. 2024
  • So while the outside is a fuzzy, soft exterior that dogs love, the interior stands up well to gnawing and gnashing.
    — Hannah Jones, Country Living, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Or when Villa were gnashing teeth about the strength of their squad (stressed by profit and sustainability rules)?
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Under heavy throttle, especially up long hills, the four-cylinder engine gnashes away up front.
    — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Amid it all, the thrill seekers have more to be thrilled with, while those still inclined to view the East End as a refuge rather than a magnet gnash their teeth.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2017
  • When the Eva goes berserk, it’s revealed to have gnashing white teeth, a jawline that its armor previously hid and muzzled.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
  • And even as both parties gnash their teeth over Russia, politicians and experts alike seem to be in denial about mistakes made in the past and the lessons to be learned from them.
    — Keith Gessen, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Parents, while gnashing their teeth trying to balance work and home schooling, have also remarked at the small joys that come with no commuting and a chance to knock off early.
    — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The 3-year-old otter was gnashing its teeth and biting its carrier, per WPTV.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In Logan, Hugh Jackman is a growling, stumbling, gnashing, clawing mass of near-dead, sinewy muscle.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 8 Mar. 2017
  • The paintings that appeared on eBay in the fall of 2012 featured skeletal figures with frenzied eyes, blocky crowns, and gnashing rows of teeth.
    — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024

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