gnash

Some barely notice they're doing it, while others can gnash through mouthguards and wake even the deepest sleeping bed partners.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

But it’s not the dirty-looking curs that run, snarl, bark and gnash their teeth behind fences when a visitor approaches that one needs to fear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

“I hate him. I hate him so much it makes me gnash my teeth,” she said in the interview.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2021

“Go weep or gnash your teeth for Katie – and, no it’s not fair! – but we must hold that seat,” she said.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2019

The rebels may gnash their teeth as they will.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The veritable pity party gnashes its teeth more and more as the months pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025

The great matador gnashes his teeth while the señoritas throw flowers and jewels at the doctor’s feet.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2020

“He’s not a brooder, not someone who wrings his hands and gnashes his teeth,” Axelrod said.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2013

"Ancelotti clung to the wrong lifeboat, the same one as usual – Torres – and the pair of them sank together," gnashes the Gazzetta before gushing over United.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2011

The royal gentleman gnashes his false teeth in vain, and has scene after scene with the royal son, who, green with rage, reproaches him for having parted with these treasures.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

It requires gnashed teeth and squinting between fingers that cover your eyes.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022

Journalists at CNN gnashed their teeth at missed opportunities to show off their toughness and knowledge if they’d been in his place asking questions of premiers or presidents.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 23, 2021

“The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.”

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2019

“Strings soar, teeth are gnashed, heroines throw themselves across beds,” Elizabeth Renzetti wrote in The Globe and Mail.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2018

He gnashed his teeth and shook his head with bitter woe and resentment.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

A hue, a cry, a gnashing of teeth and maybe the angry neighing of horses will be heard across the land at the debut of the newly redecorated “Little House on the Prairie.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Finding the thick edge of another £5bn from existing budgets could prompt plenty more backbench gnashing of teeth.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Her performance is one for the ages, a gnashing, robust physical achievement that cements her as one of the greatest actors of her generation.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

In the face of terror, you need to sway and smile to take a break from the weeping and the gnashing of teeth that’s the rest of the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

He learns that she is prone to snoring, ever so faintly, sounding like a lawn mower that will not start, and to gnashing her jaws, which he massages for her as she sleeps.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri