Looking for sentences and phrases with the word gride? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Yet, for all of his research, he discovered only one noise that is universally intolerable: the gride, the rasping sound epitomized by nails on a chalkboard.
Examples from Classical Literature
Then I saw some cabmen and others had walked boldly into the sand pits, and heard the clatter of hoofs and the gride of wheels.
He went to her and begged her not to marry gride, but she thought it her duty.
Vainly did gride bemoan the loss of the money he had hoped to gain, and vainly did Ralph Nickleby, with curses, try to prevent.
The allusion to friends, and the offer of money, gride held to be mere empty vapouring, for purposes of delay.
He went to gride, too, but the hideous old miser only sneered at him.
The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.
To all entreaties, protestations, and offers of compromise between his own proposals and those which Arthur Gride had first suggested, Ralph was deaf as an adder.
