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    Use "gnarled" in a sentence

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    gnarled


    1. Behind the busiest street, I walked romantic corridors between dilapidated wood and mud houses with charming little kitchens, fire-places, wood storage rooms, and some with courtyards and even pebble mosaic designs laid in the ground beneath knotty gnarled old trees that still flowered bright crimson and pale blue


    2. woman pointing at a gnarled and ancient oak tree that stood in the


    3. mother sat quietly in the kitchen with her gnarled old hands


    4. grassy plateau sheltered by a few gnarled and windswept trees


    5. A mesh of gnarled roots thick as normal trees, sprang from the earth, surrounding the trunk for miles


    6. He was as gnarled as the few straggly pines


    7. Those that found the courage to near him, assumed he was asleep – or possibly dead – so still was the man as he leaned on his gnarled staff


    8. There came a soft hiss as Adros’ grip tightened on his gnarled staff


    9. He tells me that he looks as bent as the gnarled oak that Philemon’s namesake became


    10. She walked slowly, but even if she dragged this out at the pace of gnarled Philemon, she

    11. “Don’t move,” said the man in a heavy, gnarled voice, emphasizing every word to make the command unmistakable


    12. The gnarled, dark-brown and uneven outer wall of the grand floor was nearby


    13. In contrast, the gnarled limbs grew in all directions


    14. I"m sure there were odors from the trees and vines that twined themselves around these gnarled limbs, but I didn"t notice


    15. Pomegranate trees preened themselves with scarlet flowers, while nearby the gnarled limbs of olive trees became mere dark blobs against the landscape


    16. I leaned against one of the gnarled tree trunks, almost unable to stand without support


    17. The beast is uncoiling! It's gnarled head rising! The eyes bulging ! The mouth twisting! And that tail


    18. in front of his face, revealing it to be more of a parchment-white, gnarled claw


    19. The stranger touched her forehead, chanting as he traced symbols on her skin with a gnarled finger


    20. The enormous stump with its buttresses and gnarled roots was afterwards set on fire, and when darkness fell on the capital the blazing fetish houses and heaps of rubbish, with the black bodies of the levies as they rushed hither and thither, demolishing walls and throwing fresh fuel on the blazing piles, made a weird and striking scene, that will be long imprinted on the minds of those who witnessed it

    21. The gnarled head bobbed slowly


    22. Darkburst rested beneath a gnarled elder eating the worms he'd gathered earlier


    23. " He tapped the concrete with a gnarled knuckle


    24. "'Ere, 'ave yer seen them new lot what's moved into Whiteford's old cottage yet?" Uncle Hobart clicked his dentures, crumpling his empty beer can with gnarled fingers


    25. He saw the Pilgrim had left his walking stick behind; a sturdy piece of wood, gnarled and light


    26. We spread a blanket beneath a gnarled old tangerine tree far in the back, out of sight of the house


    27. When we walk up the steps, he stops the knife and tosses it into his other hand, which is gnarled with scars


    28. A maple-tree grew beside it with a curiously gnarled and twisted trunk, creeping along the ground for a little way before shooting up into the air, and so forming a quaint seat; and September had flung a scarf of pale smoke-blue asters around the hollow


    29. His face gnarled into a look of pain, although it was uncalled for


    30. Seated at the end of the tables stood a very large but gnarled

    31. The great chief stood up on his gnarled stumps and clapped his


    32. An enraged Derek ran to the nearest gnarled bush and clung


    33. In his right hand, he holds a thick ancient book; in his left, a gnarled wooden cane


    34. He reached out, there was something in his gnarled old


    35. ” Talia pronounced as she produced the staff from that collection, a slightly gnarled two-meter length of a wood that had been bleached almost white, topped with a brass circle ten centimeters in diameter


    36. But no, this man was older than Duncan Gelahn, and his face was gnarled and lined with the sun


    37. Callused, gnarled old instruments of mercy, he thought, and then quickly took his leave of them


    38. When she asked the question again, this time more quietly, his head fell backwards and the gnarled angles of the tree pressed into his hair


    39. He was lying in his usual position: on his back with one gnarled arm flung out to one side, his head turned towards it, away from her


    40. ” Talia pronounced as she produced the staff from that collection, a slightly gnarled six-foot length of a wood that had been bleached almost white, topped with a brass circle four inches in diameter

    41. Simon’s fingers were gripping his companion’s upper arm and as he watched he saw them turn grey and gnarled, as if he’d aged in a moment to the point of death


    42. Callused, gnarled old instruments of mercy, he thought, and then quickly took his leave of


    43. His mother, a gnarled woman in the same trade as himself; a father he never knew but dreamed of often; later, his woman; the children she had borne for him; the trade in wax and the long hours they spent dredging a living from it


    44. I could feel every bone in his gnarled hand


    45. It was a gravelly voice as gnarled as his hands


    46. She drew her dagger and stabbed at the gnarled claw that held her


    47. He used his gnarled and filthy hands to drag himself across the dirt to me


    48. I stared at Aunty Em’s gnarled claws, and tried to fight the groggy trance the old woman had put me in


    49. All the trees and plants around here—few that there are—have a bedraggled and gnarled appearance


    50. There was a severed black hand sinking its thorny claws into the nape of the Dangler’s neck—the three gnarled fingers had the same volcanic, crusted skin as the dark hand the children had seen fall into the river by the first hole in the water, then again more recently scuttling along the riverbed in the Soridwood













































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    Synonyms for "gnarled"

    gnarled gnarly knobbed knotted knotty distorted askew contorted awry crooked disfigured

    "gnarled" definitions

    used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots