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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

He says his daughters have seen him gnash his teeth when he talks about his father, but they also have heard him speak lovingly of the man who taught him compassion and other virtues.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2018

The rebels may gnash their teeth as they will.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

"Hold your tongue," says the stepmother, and she gnashes her teeth, and they make a noise like clattering tongs.

From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Dmitri Mitrokhin

It requires gnashed teeth and squinting between fingers that cover your eyes.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 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

A couple of women actually hissed at them, and a kid gnashed his teeth like some wild animal.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

A hue, a cry, a gnashing of teeth and maybe the angry neighing of horses will be heard across the land at the debut of the newly redecorated “Little House on the Prairie.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

“While it would be nice if the Fed could fix everything on its own, it probably can’t, at least not without causing a great deal of weeping and gnashing of teeth,” said Channel.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024

It could take several ballots, lots of smoke and drinks in backrooms combined with banshee-like wailing and gnashing of teeth.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024

Did they think the WGA and SAG-AFTRA weren’t going to rise up, teeth gnashing, in response?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

All day long I played soccer in various neighbourhoods, and toward afternoon, as hunger began gnashing at my guts, I left for home.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane