Example sentences for: gnashing

How can you use “gnashing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As a result, over time, and with much gnashing of teeth the "elephant did begin to dance" and LSC, its grantees and the federally-funded legal services delivery system began to evolve from a piecemeal, Great Society experiment to carefully chosen nonprofit corporations working together to serve poor clients in every jurisdiction.

  • Still, because these borrowed, aberrant words represent relatively rare infractions of the time-honored rules of grammar, I doubt that matters will ever reach the point where literate Greeks would be driven to gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair by Greek equivalents of barbarisms such as to you and I and Us teachers are ....

  • Meanwhile, someone who did understand Crook's logic, and who therefore understood why even the most optimistic economists have been finding it increasingly hard to justify current stock valuations, might well have shifted heavily into cash, perhaps even shorted the market, and would soon have been gnashing his teeth.

  • (As the fundamentalist preacher thundered: In the fiery furnaces of Hell, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth.


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