gnash
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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
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
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
How he groans, struggles, gnashes his teeth, tosses his arms about, and contorts his back!
From The Yellow Rose by M?r J?kai
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
It played host to gnashed teeth in the 10th and the 11th.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2018
The baroness gnashed her teeth as if she planned to bite someone, but the ovation grew until she had no choice but to step down and return to her seat at the trustees’ table.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
“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
The rending of hair and gnashing of teeth has begun.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024
“Now they have no reason to get into it. They are now sitting gnashing their teeth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
His teeth fell out from gnashing; he pulled the few loyal tufts from his scalp in wild anger.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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