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Or Disney’s “Frozen,” from 2013, where wolves gnash as they pursue the heroine.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

I don’t know about you, but I gnash my teeth every time I hear someone has accused a fat celebrity, model or influencer of “glorifying obesity” for simply being happy and living their life publicly.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2023

“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

So he goes in every day into George’s room about eleven, and sings that tune till George gnashes his teeth with rage. 

From Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad

To give the sandworm’s gaping maw some grandeur, Green recorded a friend’s dog as it gnashed its teeth, while Mangini added grumbling whale noises that matched the rhythm of the thumper — gunk, gunk, gunk.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2022

Whether screaming or singing, Yates’s voice consistently traveled in a straight line toward infinity, while guitarists Brady Ebert and Pat McCrory gnashed and chugged alongside him.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2021

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

After I wailed and gnashed my teeth last week about the unavailability of dried yeast, it was suggested by some that I get into baking sourdough.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2020

Lieutenant Scheisskopf tore his hair and gnashed his teeth.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

After all the gnashing riffs, Lauryn Hill sang a snatch of “Nothing Even Matters,” her tender 1998 duet with D’Angelo, the neo-soul savant who died in October.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

The first felt too cold and couldn’t hack how to modernize Morfydd Clark’s Ophelia; the second started strong but got soggy with its repetitive weeping and gnashing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025

At the same time, he continues to throw himself a great pity party, wraps himself in his solipsistic view of victimhood, wailing like a banshee and gnashing his teeth in anger.

From Salon ● May 30, 2024

“While it would be nice if the Fed could fix everything on its own, it probably can’t, at least not without causing a great deal of weeping and gnashing of teeth,” said Channel.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024

It confronted the bleak Plateau of Drume with angry brows and gnashing teeth.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin