(n.) A knot or gnarl in wood; hence, a tough, thickset man; -- written also gnarr.
(v. i.) To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then there's a figure like Bassnectar, who can play the big carnival-style festivals but also takes his gnarly-but-trippy version of dubstep to events like Electric Forest, where he'll play on the same bill as jam bands like String Cheese Incident.
(2) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(3) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
(4) 9.59am GMT “This slopestyle is , as the kids say, gnarly,” says Guy Hornsby.
(5) Singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney are sitting side by side in a booth, scoffing cheeseburgers while appreciating the gathering of gnarly boozers at the jukebox in the corner.
(6) Pursuing his father's Italian roots he lived there for three years learning to cook, and the food he serves - a lot of offal, sweet and sour sauces for meats, gnarly rustic pasta dishes - is, he says, the antithesis of the ersatz version of Italian served in New York's old-fashioned red-sauce restaurants.
(7) Replacement of the signal recognition particle (SRP) 7S gene (SCR1) on a replicating plasmid with scr1-1 (G to A at 129 and A to T at 131 in the consensus sequence -GNAR- in the loop of domain III) resulted in temperature sensitivity for growth of cells in which both chromosomal SRP 7S RNA genes were deleted.
(8) They are primary RNA binding proteins, recognize RNA tetranucleotide loops with a GNAR consensus motif, and require a helical region located adjacent to the tetraloop.
(9) This old chestnut has raised its gnarly weather-beaten head more than once since our plea for seasonally themed questions.
(10) Grid reference: 51.3001, 1.1513 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Kailpot Crag, Ullswater, Lake District Ullswater is one of the most popular and beautiful lakes in the Lake District, but to escape the crowds head for this high, gnarly crag.
(11) "Some gnarly jocks were trying to hump up on the girls," says Korine.
(12) Shoppers could and do argue that their waste is spurred by supermarket offers; farmers could and do argue that their waste is caused by factors outside their control, such as: "I cannot eat this parsnip because it looks like the gnarly hand of a wizard."
(13) Stay sick, my friends, no seriously, I'm liveblogging today with a pretty gnarly cold, but I also promise to make it through all of this game.
(14) He is also the only sound editor the Coen Brothers work with, which means that he is the person responsible for that gnarly wood chipper noise in Fargo, the peel of wallpaper in Barton Fink, the resonance of The Dude’s bowling ball in The Big Lebowski and the absolutely chilling crinkle of Javier Bardem’s gum wrapper in No Country for Old Men.
(15) "It's just so… gnarly," he tells the team in the footage from that time.
(16) We thought if we both get pregnant, well, that's a bit gnarly, but we can ride it out.
(17) 11.02am GMT “On the more, er ... gnarly events, the commentary should go the full WWE,” says Gary Naylor.
(18) I'd say to Russell, 'Oh try this…'" The turning point was when she nailed a gnarly Venetian staple called baccalà mantecato .
(19) Click here to watch There was a notable absence of rock at this year's Grammys, but thankfully Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor took centre stage for the gnarly closer, performing Copy of A from his 2013 album Hesitation Marks, joined on stage by Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme.
(20) The upstairs rooms have sweeping views of the dense urban environment, while the pretty garden of potted flowers and gnarly old trees provides a welcome escape from it.
Snarl
Definition:
(v. t.) To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
(v. t.) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.
(v. t.) To embarrass; to insnare.
(n.) A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
(v. i.) To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
(v. i.) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
(n.) The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Midan Giza, a traffic-snarled interchange on the west bank of the Nile, for Friday prayers, he saw a graphic illustration of Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak: neat rows of police and plainclothes security officers lining the streets to maintain calm.
(3) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.
(4) A training exercise from 2006 had created the scenario of a car bomb attack on government buildings but a recommendation to close the roads around the central district had been snarled up in bureaucracy for five years, said the report.
(5) Planning permission for the laboratory was rejected twice by South Cambridgeshire district council on the grounds that protests by animal rights campaigners outside the facility would snarl up traffic and could become a nuisance to local residents.
(6) The girl who did that is an intern, she’s working for free,” she snarled.
(7) "But we do not want to snarl up the government's legislative programme on Lords reform.
(8) Traffic in New York snarls up under the sheer weight of backed-up, blacked-out limousines transporting the stressed-out bankers.
(9) Documents released on Saturday appear to show that officials loyal to Christie went to elaborate lengths to obscure the true motivation for the snarl-up by trying to make it appear to be part of a traffic flow study.
(10) Whether villainous or heroic, romantic or sly, funny or frightening, he put that snarl to good use alongside his dark-brown voice and melancholy features in a wide range of parts.
(11) Lampard was booked for a lunge on Modric while sniping and snarling at the officials was a constant theme.
(12) The Spaniard wins a free-kick, prompting Schweinsteiger to snarl menacingly in his ear.
(13) According to those who have dealt with him, he is far from a snarling Rottweiler.
(14) The trolling on my Twitter account has been particularly heavy this week, with various instructions to “fuck myself” as well as the snarling insistence that I attend a gathering of the KKK.
(15) Even ignoring the rather pathetic complaint submitted by a steward for what seemed an innocuous incident in the mouth of the tunnel late on here, this was another display that demonstrated too much snarl and not enough bite.
(16) A solo soul set, with Prince at a piano emitting a seamless flow of yips, whoops, snarls and moans of finely turned ecstasy.
(17) RSL meanwhile left the field snarling — Beckerman picking up a yellow as he argued with the referee on the way to the tunnel.They only had themselves to blame after lacking urgency in the first half.
(18) As it's one of those cities where honking in traffic is recreation, I wait for a snarl of cars to pass before asking a food stall attendant how he thinks the place has changed.
(19) Duterte called Pope Francis a “son of a whore” for snarling up Manila traffic earlier this year when he visited the country.
(20) False.” 2 Legitimate news organisations that regurgitate stories without checking, such as the $200 Bill Clinton haircut on Air Force One which supposedly snarled air traffic at LAX in 1993.