Example Sentences

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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 Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 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

“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

Lieutenant Scheisskopf tore his hair and gnashed his teeth.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller