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Gnash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.
  • (v. i.) To grind or strike the teeth together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I even suspect that if Charlotte had truly known what marriage to a man so teeth-gnashingly awful really meant – in a way that no woman without the experience of going out with, let alone sleeping with, someone inappropriate can – she would have made a different choice.
  • (2) Some gnash their teeth, others use their bladders or tails to make sound.
  • (3) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
  • (4) While Arsenal fans have spent the last nine years gnashing and wailing, Hull supporters have cheered the incredible resurrection of their club, as David Conn explains here .
  • (5) The wine proved to be rather acid, thereby promoting abrasion as a result of gnashing, and to contain a high concentration of tannin.
  • (6) When China eclipsed Japan as the world's second biggest economy in 2010, there was less gnashing of teeth in Tokyo than some had expected.
  • (7) For some, it was the tale of a bear hunt, for others the story of the way wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes.
  • (8) Imagine Ed Miliband did what many are recommending and appointed Margaret Hodge as Labour's Whitehall efficiency tsar and charged her with improving effectiveness and efficiency such that a future chair of the public accounts committee would have no need to gnash their teeth and groan at the scale of waste.
  • (9) Meanwhile, in a (seemingly) parallel story, medieval dullard Alaïs must protect the (apparently) same ring from gnashing crusaders and conniving sister Oriane, who is also banging Alaïs's expressionless husband.
  • (10) Everything would be provided: Jacobs thought everything "was the worst thing we can provide" and cited a preacher's prophecy that there would be gnashing of teeth in hell.
  • (11) This may be an unfashionable view right now, with so much anti-Clegg teeth-gnashing – but the worst things Labour did, from Iraq to detention without trial, would never have happened if Blair had been in coalition with Charles Kennedy or Ming Campbell .
  • (12) Still, one can only imagine the teeth-gnashing and frothing at the mouth from conservatives and libertarians that will greet Thursday's announcements.
  • (13) I remember when development budgets were in the hundreds of thousands, and when the average became more than a million there was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth that this was an unsustainable trend.
  • (14) The serenity of the lobby-cum-assembly hall at the first free school awarded an outstanding Ofsted report is as good a place as any for those seeking sanctuary from the political gnashing and wailing that has become a hallmark of Michael Gove's time as education secretary.
  • (15) Iconfess I have not detected much wailing and gnashing of teeth at the news that the palace of Westminster, home of the Lords and Commons, is falling down , and will slide into the Thames in a decade or two unless what speaker John Bercow calls the “not inconsequential” sum of £3bn is spent tarting it up.
  • (16) Would you be fuming with rage, foaming at the mouth, gnashing your teeth?
  • (17) Clenching and gnashing of the teeth was also studied in relation to the personality variables.
  • (18) It’s all “ fiery lakes ” and “ everlasting destruction ” and “ weeping and gnashing of teeth ”.
  • (19) Strong to very strong activity was consistently observed in the superior head during clenching and tooth gnashing.
  • (20) The entirely-unofficial free game challenges players to "soccer bite with your friends", gnashing away at Italian players while avoiding the temptation to bite the referee characters and get a red card.

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