gnash

Some barely notice they're doing it, while others can gnash through mouthguards and wake even the deepest sleeping bed partners.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Or Disney’s “Frozen,” from 2013, where wolves gnash as they pursue the heroine.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

I don’t know about you, but I gnash my teeth every time I hear someone has accused a fat celebrity, model or influencer of “glorifying obesity” for simply being happy and living their life publicly.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2023

“I hate him. I hate him so much it makes me gnash my teeth,” she said in the interview.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2021

The quiet was disturbed only by the slup of soup and gnash of chewing, and his father waved his hand to try to drive the moths away from the chimney of the kerosene lamp.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The veritable pity party gnashes its teeth more and more as the months pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025

The great matador gnashes his teeth while the señoritas throw flowers and jewels at the doctor’s feet.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2020

“He’s not a brooder, not someone who wrings his hands and gnashes his teeth,” Axelrod said.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2013

"Ancelotti clung to the wrong lifeboat, the same one as usual – Torres – and the pair of them sank together," gnashes the Gazzetta before gushing over United.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2011

But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.

From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

To give the sandworm’s gaping maw some grandeur, Green recorded a friend’s dog as it gnashed its teeth, while Mangini added grumbling whale noises that matched the rhythm of the thumper — gunk, gunk, gunk.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2022

The mask came off, the gnashed teeth of the Hulk gone, a face of these Tokyo Olympics revealed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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

“The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.”

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2019

But they sat there unmoved by anything and Wang Lung gnashed his teeth at them and walked back to his house groaning and fell upon his bed.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

However, some dentists have told the BBC they are worried about the increasing number of young people they're seeing with dental problems caused by incessant gnashing.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

After all the gnashing riffs, Lauryn Hill sang a snatch of “Nothing Even Matters,” her tender 1998 duet with D’Angelo, the neo-soul savant who died in October.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

In the face of terror, you need to sway and smile to take a break from the weeping and the gnashing of teeth that’s the rest of the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

At the same time, he continues to throw himself a great pity party, wraps himself in his solipsistic view of victimhood, wailing like a banshee and gnashing his teeth in anger.

From Salon ● May 30, 2024

But they skidded to a stop at their owner’s barbed wire boundary, and sat there, howling and gnashing their teeth until he turned a corner.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols