gnash
verb (used with object)
to grind or strike (the teeth) together, especially in rage or pain.
were gnashing
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past progressiveof gnash.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“You can hear it growling and groaning all night long, as though it were gnashing its teeth—I don’t like it at all.”
From The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Emerson Hough
The knitting made a pleasing accompaniment to the moonlight of the sonata, as if pelicans were gnashing their teeth in the dimness.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
If he cried quietly, Yura could understand it, but he sobbed loudly, he moaned in a heavy voice and his teeth were gnashing terribly.
From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Herman Bernstein
