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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

He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he talks about his father, but they also have heard him speak lovingly of the man who taught him compassion and other virtues.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2018

Smoke and exhaust rise from its giant sky-facing maw, which rotates as teeth gnash and devour fallen and limbed trees, up to 40 inches in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2016

The quiet was disturbed only by the slup of soup and gnash of chewing, and his father waved his hand to try to drive the moths away from the chimney of the kerosene lamp.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.

From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The mask came off, the gnashed teeth of the Hulk gone, a face of these Tokyo Olympics revealed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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

“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

I wailed and gnashed my teeth over the fact that I had maligned a fellow student.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

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

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

As they say in the Old Testament, there was much consternation and gnashing of teeth.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman