What's the difference between gristle and gristly?
Gristle
Definition:
(n.) Cartilage. See Cartilage.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you're on the lookout for gristle on a stick, or deep-fried nearly-meat and soggy chips, it's your lucky night.
(2) File next to: Ariel Pink, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, 23 Skidoo.
(3) And then they look up from breaking some poor alligator’s face, or whatever it is they do on their lunch break over mouthfuls of boar gristle, and what do they see?
(4) Now, while you're there, imagine that oozing gristle as David Cameron's penis.
(5) Acts such as Whitehouse and Throbbing Gristle, who are essential part of modern avant-garde music, could be caught in a “dragnet” approach to hateful material.
(6) We like to let our imaginations run riot and think of them as a latterday Throbbing Gristle, a bunch of art terrorists doing abusive, subversive things to mainstream pop culture from the margins.
(7) Exploding ammunition such as the Israeli Frag 12 can cause even more fearsome wounds - Amnesty nicknamed it "the hamburger weapon" because it could reduce targets to meat, gristle, testicle, brain and goo.
(8) She described the collagen structure left behind after the bleach had done its work as being like the "gristle" in a steak.
Gristly
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the policy succeeds then he's a success; if it fails, if schools are shut down for treating girls like second-class citizens , if schools don't open in time for the start of term , if buildings aren't appropriate and kids spend two years without a playground , then this is yet more grist to his failure mill.
(2) Nathanael Johnson, a journalist who has carefully researched GMOs, dug into this issue last year for Grist , so it’s no secret that the 2009 complaint cited by Hansen is out of date.
(3) He was part of a wider media landscape that regarded human nature as base, people as corruptible, public figures as grist to the scandal mill.
(4) You wondered what happened to the passengers.” The Mazraa attack was blamed on Jabhat al-Nusra, the rebel group that has just announced its affiliation to al-Qaida – grist to the mill of the government, which sought from the start to portray the anti-Assad uprising as an exclusively Islamist, extremist and terrorist conspiracy fomented by Arab and western enemies.
(5) For West Ham Matt Jarvis returned on the left of midfield and Joey O’Brien stepped in at right back in a 4-5-1 formation designed with gristly defence in mind at a ground where, despite his reputation for Wenger-baiting, Sam Allardyce has never won a game in 12 attempts.
(6) Gunther agrees this is true ("his statement may be factually defensible") but quotes an article in Grist as providing evidence to the contrary.
(7) His grimace, that it was “all gristly”, is an image I’m finding hard to shake off.
(8) Pressed on the levels of violence at the demonstrations, he replies: "These people are not middle-class female teachers … if they continue to be suppressed it will turn nasty in one way or another … We have put bodies on the street, writing letters to the Times does not work … if we are going to have a mess that is so much grist to the mill."
(9) The tragedy was grist to Health Concern's mill; a deeply emotive case that appeared to encapsulate the human cost of Kidderminster hospital's demise.
(10) Elsewhere, I saw someone crocheting a bra, which should really be new grist to the mill of bra-based feminist disparagement.
(11) • Grist is part of the Guardian Environment Network
(12) Last year's second nuclear test, Pyongyang's aggressive development of ballistic missiles, and its absurdly bellicose tirades, are grist to this well-tried technique of negotiation by force.
(13) Every marathon death or Marr story is grist to the mill of the sedentary and idle.
(14) In a note released today, Greece’s Centre for Planning and Economic research, KEPE, predicted that joblessness would rise from 27.6% at the end of 2013 to 29.3 % next year blaming the “dramatically high levels on the contraction of the country’s productive base.” All of which is grist to the mill for opponents of the gruelling terms of Greece’s rescue program.
(15) There may be no easy solution to this problem, and it will provide the grist for many bioethicists.
(16) But statements such as this add grist to the view that – though no worse on gender equality than the Mubarak regime – it is in fact the harbinger of a second Iran .
(17) Grist recently reported: “Americans drive a lot – about 8.9m miles each day during the summer driving season last year, an increase of about 3.7% over the year before.
(18) Disarray and acrimony over the EU arms embargo was grist to Assad's mill.
(19) Eastwood's rambling, freestyle address prompted a storm on Twitter and provided grist for US chatshow hosts in the weeks that followed.
(20) A bad break-up proved grist to his epigrammatic mill ("This person that I thought was the love of my life ended up being the love of my youth," he says) and gave him his abiding lyrical theme: the conflicted nature of desire.