GNARL in a Sentence
Learn GNARL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
14 example sentences for GNARL, such as:
1. My caress provoked a long, guttural gnarl.
2. The gnarled oak tree had been a landmark for years and was mentioned in several deeds.
3. He must be awfully old, for his face is all gnarled and twisted like the bark of a tree.
4. Neither gnarled fingers nor old scars nor old doubts and sorrows were any of them in evidence now.
5. She looked at Archie's gnarled old hands, his two pistols and his knife, and fear pricked her again.
2. The gnarled oak tree had been a landmark for years and was mentioned in several deeds.
3. He must be awfully old, for his face is all gnarled and twisted like the bark of a tree.
4. Neither gnarled fingers nor old scars nor old doubts and sorrows were any of them in evidence now.
5. She looked at Archie's gnarled old hands, his two pistols and his knife, and fear pricked her again.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of GNARL
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
gnarl
v. make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
n. something twisted and tight and swollen
Classic Sentence:
1 My caress provoked a long, guttural gnarl.
2 As soon as she was beneath the gnarled arms of the cedars, she knew she was safe from observation from the house and she slowed her swift pace.
3 Scarlett thought of the kind, gnarled hands of Mammy worn rough in Ellen's service and hers and Wade's.
4 She looked at Archie's gnarled old hands, his two pistols and his knife, and fear pricked her again.
5 Archie held the lamp low over the bed to give light and one of his gnarled fingers was on Ashley's wrist.
6 Suddenly she wanted Mammy desperately, as she had wanted her when she was a little girl, wanted the broad bosom on which to lay her head, the gnarled black hand on her hair.
7 The coachman, a hard-faced, gnarled little fellow, saluted Sir Henry Baskerville, and in a few minutes we were flying swiftly down the broad, white road.
8 Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
9 It was already the beginning of June when on his return journey he drove into the birch forest where the gnarled old oak had made so strange and memorable an impression on him.
10 Neither gnarled fingers nor old scars nor old doubts and sorrows were any of them in evidence now.
11 Ben Weatherstaff put his gnarled hand up and passed it over his eyes and over his forehead and then he did answer in a queer shaky voice.
12 He must be awfully old, for his face is all gnarled and twisted like the bark of a tree.
13 Great dismantled trunks of pines tower above the green cottonfields, cracking their naked gnarled fingers toward the border of living forest beyond.
Example Sentence:
1 The gnarled oak tree had been a landmark for years and was mentioned in several deeds.