Example Sentences

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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 Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)

“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 Hough, Emerson

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 Bernstein, Herman