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Sentence Examples He can make a haunting face peer from the gnarled old trunk of a great oak or fashion an oversized stag beetle from a lime tree. The old gnarled trees of the forest grew up to the edge of another bank, their roots jutting out into the deep water. The trunk of the silver birch has always been too bent and gnarled for commercial use. Her sister came away from the counter and sat down at one of the rough, gnarled chairs at the table. They were old, and they were tall, crooked and gnarled from weather and from time. She placated him, smoothing down his shoulder length hair with her rough and gnarled hands. I dreamt that we were old, really old, and we were walking with my gnarled old hand in yours. The gnarled brown trees twisted into the earth and entwined each other in thick embraces. There was a picture in the paper I was reading of an old black woman, gnarled as an olive tree. Your hair is so greasy and gnarled, with that outfit, you look like a bag lady! Abruptly the old man wheezed and slumped back in his chair, one stiff, gnarled hand to his chest. The gnarled brown root is readily available in our supermarkets and not expensive. The disciples have gnarled hands, rough faces with the grime and sweat of an arduous day at their fishing nets. After Sophie came, Uncle Andy had built her a tree house within the great mass of gnarled branches. The wind howled in an unearthly never-ending scream, whistling through the gnarled, twisted trees. With their gnarled trunks, silvery green leaves and branches weighed down with small greeny black olives, they look as old as the world. An oblong of pebbles and short posts anchored by a gnarled, leafless tree creates the isolated beach where Braidie retreats in contemplation. Its gnarled branches twisted and turned into the air, and a hangman's noose hung from one of its thickest and strongest branches. At the rear of the garden is a large lily pool, backed with a pergola laden with gnarled wisteria vines. I'd have sworn he was still burning the way his body shone. Barr's tone is homely, gnarled, wintrily pastoral. Show More Sentences Imagine feeling a little bored while you're sketching a gnarled old boot in your art class. Aborigines originally used the gnarled trunks and roots of local camphor trees as a base for their carvings. Maybe he wouldn't take it too well that I'd called his girlfriend a gnarled witch. The mother came in from the kitchen, dark steel blue eyes clouded over with tears of worry and stress, strawberry blond hair matted and gnarled. It's lovely, you sort of follow a gill that has alders like the River Cover, but almost different trees, small and gnarled and ancient looking. The Dig Tree is a gnarled coolibah that stands in the burnt heart of the outback, beside the warm, green water of Cooper's Creek. The land was barren, with only a few gnarled shrubs and trees to offer little cover, but there was no one in sight. The legs were gnarled and twisted, the left one bent at a crazy angle making the beast tip to one side slightly. Bill Harney has the gnarled hands and weathered hat of a lifetime's work with cattle. I have often thought of that scene in the desert, when Christ, weary and way-worn, sat down, perhaps upon the gnarled roots of some old tree. Consumed with vengeance, the Queen brews up a potion that transforms her into a gnarled old crone. She held out her gnarled hands, as twisted and brown as the galls of a walnut tree. The rough surface and the gnarled features have become the distinctive marks of his works. I followed them for at least a dozen meters before they ended at the foot of a gnarled old oak, the massive boughs wearing snow and ice. Renowned for its longevity, a gnarled, twisted olive tree can bear fruit for several hundred years. Now the hunt for more soaring specimens of kapok, wild ficus, Dead Man's Tree, and gnarled kenip continues, as efforts to save the trees gain steam. He appeared to be limping, leaning dependently on a short gnarled cane. Shafts of light fall through the gnarled holes in the metal and slice the green water inside. It is a gnarled story, and it's full of the most gnarled feelings and then there's… as it comes to the very end, one final gnarl. On market days, when he loads heavy boxes of vegetables onto his cart, he feels his thin, gnarled arms are not as strong as they were. Show More Sentences A gnarled old apple tree in the garden may be a descendant of the famous specimen which helped Newton with his work on gravity. The trees are short, gnarled and stunted, and mosses and lichens drape their branches. Watch mountain ash trees make way for gnarled snow gum forests and colourful alpine meadows on Victoria's Baw Baw Plateau. Even when they're all gnarled and dried up, they send out new shoots and come back to life. From Pine Forest Moor, the route winds past gnarled, moss-covered forests, beneath the rocky overhang of Mt Pelion West. The skilled, gnarled hands run over the slowly cooling plate with a steady, constant pressure. The knots were so plentiful that the thread stood up like a gnarled flagpole. On Seventh St, the Grand's pergola flows with gnarled crimson grapevine and its courtyards are dotted with Italianate fountains. A gnarled piece of wood may not sound like the most thrilling of tourist attractions. A gnarled wishing tree, strewn with glittering pendants, dominates the stage. I saw one bird, a tiny sparrow darting through the gnarled pine limbs. Donovan reached out and grasped the old woman's gnarled hand. A gnarled old man is standing on the terracotta balcony of his home. It was gnarled like a tree branch, twisting and distorting in places. A small crevice in the cliff allowed them passage, into a very small, shadowy space between many boulders and the remains of a gnarled, weathered tree. The young who are not gnarled and knocked around by the old fights are tired of the overtones of special pleading. This winter, young mountain ash trees are weighed down with scarlet berries while Scots pine saplings flourish alongside their ancestors' gnarled remains. Under the gnarled and rotted central post his wicked body lies interred forever, unmourned and unremembered, without stone or monument to acknowledge his passing. Dybbuk may be the composer's toughest compositional nut to crack, a gnarled web of sound tightly woven from folk music, cantorial prayer, and serial techniques. Here,' said the eldest, pointing a gnarled finger at a chart, 'the Sun, the Moon, and Jupiter will conjoin under the Pushya star which then will be in the Sign of Cancer. Show More Sentences At the height of summer the gnarled black vine stocks still manage to conserve their parasols of lush green leaves, drawing water from deep underground and shading the bunches of ripening grapes beneath. While working on Mercedes Five and Dime, it immediately became obvious that the walls of gnarled guitars, twisted Hammond organ chords and perpetual volume build-up had evolved into something more. Inspired by centuries-old Zen gardens, she made bowls with parallel grooves and gnarled objects of petrified wood with ceramic components that seamlessly coalesce into a new entity. With their roots deep in mud, jagged and gnarled mangrove trees are able to grow in the brackish wetlands between land and sea where other plant life cannot survive. For some indescribable reason, standing next to one, craning my neck to view in entirety its spindly, gnarled countenance, invariably puts me in a good mood. Their trunks were gnarled beyond belief, like those in fairybooks. They were covered with the cuneiform of woodpeckers and yellowhammers. He was six feet tall and strong, but without the gnarled gym muscles Helen hated. Nestorius exploded at that and hit out. He roared and dismissed the class, hitting out with his old mottled gnarled niefs. Geeta has a sweet look in her eye, shining white teeth and gnarled feet. In the evenings, the much-dreaded Foehn rustles the leaves of the ancient, gnarled trees dotting the course. If it was him, I hope a hidden facet of Jimmy is turning a blind eye, and he leaves auld Magnus Murdersen to carry on arranging his photos of chilling doll faces, looking like a gnarled Nookie bear trying to outstare a jury. A chance meeting between a gnarled red oak tree and an imaginary bird sets off a flurry of ideas about being firmly rooted versus being an immigrant trying to build a new identity. These needs of ours run deep, a tangled underground morass of ancient, gnarled roots, looking to ensnarl any hapless soul who might accidentally trod upon their outer radices. I was taken into one by Maurice, a gnarled old Vietnam vet in a wooly hat. All that gnarled, virile, rugged language was a sign of the cross-grained idiosyncrasy of the freeborn Englishman, as opposed to the insidious smoothness of the effeminate French. So he had the burly, gnarled hands of a woodworker, but he'd wear a little black house dress and a string of pearls. In those Zen gardens I also saw superb, capriciously gnarled trees. It is accessible by foot: a vigorous ten-minute walk through the forest of Mie Prefecture on a path that crosses over streams and logs, sometimes offering enormous gnarled tree roots as stairs. These patches are but meagre second growth, with here and there a gnarled birch or overpeering pine, lonely survivor of the primeval brotherhood. Its gnarled highlands were once mountains themselves, and there are still some towering peaks of Precambrian rock in Labrador, New Quebec, and Baffin Island. Show More Sentences You're never far from a tricked-out beach buggy somersaulting through the air in flames or a gnarled old Kawasaki being harpooned from a moving lorry. Papa took his bit of compensation and found a white clapboard cottage sitting among gnarled magnolias and oaks and aged crape myrtles just one town over. Mosses, ferns, and the gnarled roots of yellow birch cling to cliff walls. Japanese bitter orange is grown more for its gnarled shape than its fruit. Later, sodbusters would curse the tenacity of the area's gnarled trees and search for arable land elsewhere, leaving the timber to deer and squirrels. She began a circuit of the dining room, peering at the baronial fireplace with its andirons the size of torture racks, and heavy oak carvers like gnarled thrones. Above a certain elevation, the aspens gave way to scrubby, gnarled pines. Examples from Classical Literature Burrs or Knauers are irregular excrescences, principally woody, with gnarled and warted surfaces. He had limbs of great length, and muscles like the gnarled heads of a beech. The lower limbs are brashy and bare of bark, and the ones above are leafless and gnarled, although alive. While all is hushed, watch the castled crag and the gnarled pine on the hilltop blacken against the golden afterglow. They are grotesquely gnarled and twisted, taking most unthought-of shapes and positions. Along came Napoleon, hacking away the limbs and scarring the gnarled trunk with fire and sword. Indeed, throughout his face there was something of the knobbed and gnarled character of that monarch of our woods. Laying hold of a gnarled root that reached down like a writhen arm, he drew himself noiselessly up the slope. They were trembly, wrinkled hands, gnarled in their knuckles, corded on their backs. It has a decayed bit of front garden in which a gnarled, stunted stick is planted, and it is called The laburnums. John Bull is clean-shaven, fat-nosed, hatted, and holds a gnarled stick. All the rocks had the shapes of frightful beings and even the tree trunks were gnarled and twisted like serpents. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound. So that the more knotted and gnarled a log of mahogany is, the better. She got up out of the hay, and put out a gnarled brown hand for it. Even from the path he saw extending from the heap an arm, a gnarled hand. He placed the gnarled thing in sunlight and crouched to survey it. Beyond, in a slightly clearer space, wild grape and honeysuckle swung in green riot from gnarled old oak trees. I suggested, and leaned across to lay the pomander in his gnarled hand. Show More Sentences The old woman was a gnarled and leathery personage who could don, at will, an expression of great virtue. Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors. Her shoulders are bowed from work, and her hands are gnarled and knuckled. The crone was hobbling along with difficulty, leaning heavily upon a gnarled stick and bearing the spindle on her other arm. The grove is ancient looking, the trees are gnarled and moss-grown. Then Robin laughed outright, and sat him down upon the gnarled root of a tree, to finish his merriment. He must be awfully old, for his face is gnarled and twisted like the bark of a tree. His muscles were knots, and he was gnarled and knobby, twisted out of beauty by excess of strength. And sons and daughters of his flesh and of the law needs must go with him fulsomely eating out of the gnarled old hand that had half a million to disburse. He saw that her toil-worn, weather-exposed hands were like a man's, callused, large-knuckled, and gnarled, and that her stockingless feet were thrust into heavy man's brogans. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air. On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees. As they neared them they saw that in falling the trees had lifted with their roots a large mass of earth and imbedded rocks that had clung to the twisted and gnarled fibers. The visitor today can sit on a hillside amid dry grasses and vinegar weed and beneath gnarled blue oaks and watch turkey buzzards soar above the rocky knolls. Find more words! 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