gnarled
adjective
Examples of gnarled in a Sentence
the old man's gnarled fingers
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But there was nothing much to see: only the bare wall and some gnarled shrubs.
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Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
La Bougie’s Mission Fig This is a delicately perfumed candle that draws its inspiration from an old, gnarled fig tree belonging to the garden of the brand founder’s family home in Tuscany.
—Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
There is magic woven into its gnarled tree branches, emanating off its fireflies’ wings, and imbued in its populace.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
The plan to protect Joshua trees from a ‘death-by-a-thousand-cuts’ fate
Their silhouettes are unmistakable: gnarled branches stretched out and up, greeting the desert sky with shocks of spiky leaves.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
La Bougie’s Mission Fig This is a delicately perfumed candle that draws its inspiration from an old, gnarled fig tree belonging to the garden of the brand founder’s family home in Tuscany.
—Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
There is magic woven into its gnarled tree branches, emanating off its fireflies’ wings, and imbued in its populace.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
The plan to protect Joshua trees from a ‘death-by-a-thousand-cuts’ fate
Their silhouettes are unmistakable: gnarled branches stretched out and up, greeting the desert sky with shocks of spiky leaves.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Gnarled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gnarled. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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