Example Sentences

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After seeing his defense torched in the Super Bowl, Bill Belichick must have been gritting his teeth for 2½ months.

From Washington Times • Apr. 23, 2018

Eleanor asked; I must have been gritting my teeth all night, she thought, the way my mouth feels.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson