How do you use Gnashing in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Gnashing meaning
The action of something that is gnashed.
Using Gnashing
- The main meaning on this page is: The action of something that is gnashed.
- In the example corpus, gnashing often appears in combinations such as: and gnashing, gnashing of, gnashing their.
Context around Gnashing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gnashing
- In this selection, "gnashing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, teeth, schlocky, fun and merona stand out and add context to how "gnashing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include wailing and gnashing of teeth and caused some gnashing of teeth. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gnashing" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gnashing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gnashing of teeth and wailing lamentations across the land. (9 words)
Gnashing one’s teeth helps nobody, least of all the teeth. (11 words)
The is waiting for them – they’re gnashing at the bit. (11 words)
Against an earlier promise that salary of workers would be paid before the end of the month, civil servants in Imo State are gnashing their teeth and lamenting of final shortcomings over the inability of the state government to pay monthly salaries. (42 words)
That’s a controversial estimate, but anything in that range would solidly place North Korea among the second-tier nuclear powers, disrupt Asia’s traditional balance of power, and set off wailing and gnashing of teeth in Washington. (38 words)
England had lost their last six wickets for 46 runs and the manner of some of the dismissals had led to the now familiar chorus of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the keepers of the flame. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Despite some brief flashes of schlocky gnashing fun, the film mostly gnaws at your time, rarely breaching the surface.
England had lost their last six wickets for 46 runs and the manner of some of the dismissals had led to the now familiar chorus of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the keepers of the flame.
Fortunately, with much pain, wailing and gnashing of teeth, we recovered around 90% of the traffic.
I write this to advise fellow Virginia basketball fans to lay off the wailing and gnashing of teeth about how the team is playing, and what it means for next month.
Much has been made of the Supreme Court’s seemingly solid conservative majority, and it’s been the cause of much teeth-gnashing and garment-rending on the Left.
That’s a controversial estimate, but anything in that range would solidly place North Korea among the second-tier nuclear powers, disrupt Asia’s traditional balance of power, and set off wailing and gnashing of teeth in Washington.
Gnashing one’s teeth helps nobody, least of all the teeth.
I figured that there would be lots of screaming, weeping and gnashing of teeth.
It was a period of wailing and gnashing of teeth as terrorists laid siege to many villages in Abuja FCT, Niger, Nasarawa and Plateau states, killing, maiming, and burning houses.
Our characters this time are desperate youth — a group of twentysomething future laborers caught in the exploitative employ of Weyland-Yutani, the evil corporation that greedily enables the gnashing in every movie.
The is waiting for them – they’re gnashing at the bit.
There’s been a lot of teeth-gnashing over the effects of Senate Bill 3202, a bill to allow for additional housing on residential lots.
After lots of moans and groans and gnashing of teeth, he said something quite profound that should resonate with every of us.
Against an earlier promise that salary of workers would be paid before the end of the month, civil servants in Imo State are gnashing their teeth and lamenting of final shortcomings over the inability of the state government to pay monthly salaries.
As Justice Samuel Alito put it in a speech this month that caused some gnashing of teeth: “All sorts of things can be called an emergency or disaster of major proportions.
By contrast, across Glasgow, the lack of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the probable sale of Alfredo Morelos is startling.
Gnashing of teeth and wailing lamentations across the land.
He is currently grinding and gnashing his teeth at the Yaounde Central Hospital.
The other person expecting to be gnashing, Merona Meroo, is Christine Holgate (, November 26).
They must be gnashing their teeth in frustration trying to figure out how to oppose it.
Common combinations with gnashing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and gnashing 12×
- gnashing of 11×
- gnashing their 4×
- be gnashing 2×