Example Sentences

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I exited my half of the party from the crypt and went all the way around to reunite with my gnomish husband in another room of the building.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2023

Its forests are dominated by wind-tortured live oaks draped with Spanish moss and greened by resurrection fern, gnomish and ceaselessly amazing.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2018

Affections seem equally divided, except for one member, Harry Styles, the obvious heartthrob, who resembles a less gnomish Mick Jagger.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2013

Notch, a self-effacing, charming, gnomish Swede in his ubiquitous fedora and polo shirt, told me, “I always imagined ‘Minecraft’ would have an end.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2012

My instructor, Donald Defier, a gnomish balding man, paced at the front of the lecture hall and flipped on an overhead projector.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot