How to Use gnarled in a Sentence

gnarled

adjective

• The sun has bleached the trunks to a bony, gnarled white.
  — Matthew Shaer, New Republic, 5 Oct. 2017
• His bike had flipped and came to rest a gnarled mess next to a guardrail on the side of the road.
  — Charles Rabin, miamiherald, 15 Aug. 2017
• The site of the gnarled hangar is fenced off and nearby streets are closed.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
• The trees look gnarled and knotty, like a desert bonsai.
  — Rachel Fobar, National Geographic, 13 Dec. 2019
• Prickly pear cactus and gnarled olive trees cling to the slope.
  — Andrea Frazzetta, National Geographic, 29 Dec. 2019
• One woman climbed the gnarled crown of a squat murici tree.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• The drop is gnarled and monstrous, with enough sidechained noise to blow a blood vessel.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 23 July 2019
• Short, buff grasses grew in the valley along with a few gnarled trees.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• Keep an eye out for gnarled stands of ancient bristlecone pines along the way.
  — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2019
• After a few moments, a whiskered head pokes out from a hole in the gnarled tree, then pulls back in.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
• Clusters of grapes dripped from gnarled vines, and garden gnomes stood watch all over the place.
  — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• Moss covers the rock outcroppings, the gnarled and twisted root of the hemlocks and the boulders in the stream.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 17 May 2017
• Once lined with the gnarled trunks and silvery-green foliage of olive trees, the area has been stripped nearly bare.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2018
• The oil and gilding on silk depicts a gnarled cypress growing out of a pile of rocks.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
• The head weighs a little over two pounds and easily cuts through gnarled wood.
  — Emily Reed, Outside Online, 12 June 2018
• Streets once lined with lush oak trees are now filled with gnarled branches and debris.
  — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
• Beyond the village, the group walked up Mamarut in high winds, stopping to rest in a screen of low, gnarled oaks.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Guards paced dirt roads, batons in hand, and spat out commands under the gnarled trees.
  — Keren Blankfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• His white hair had not been cut for many months and hung down over his gnarled ears and forehead like a forkful of hay.
  — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2023
• With wide, cylindrical trunks and gnarled branches, the trees appear to have been yanked out of the ground, flipped over and shoved back in, roots in the air.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 11 June 2018
• The route drops back down to the desert floor, slipping among picnic sites in an unassuming gnarled path.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
• On the first hole of the course — which is really the eighth hole of the club’s North Course — there’s a broken and gnarled oak tree about 80 yards up the right side of the fairway.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2019
• The trees are famed for their gnarled appearance and have been featured in Western art.
  — Michael Kohn | The Bulletin, oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2022
• The gnarled branches of a 1,600-year-old juniper tree form a fire-breathing dragon.
  — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• Dating back to the turn of the century, this old coaching inn is named for the gnarled old vine that shades its terrace.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2017
• Naturally, there is a hand: a gnarled, green claw that emerges from the depths of the closet, like a ghost of the past reaching into the present.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The archway at the entrance to the neighborhood had been demolished; the gnarled hull of a black car sat nearby.
  — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• Most notably, a large, gnarled tree in the wooded area known as Squirrels Inn toppled.
  — Author: Kat Sorensen, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2018
• Its surface bears the shadow of the gnarled plant that’s next to it on which rests the shadow of an otherwise unseen bird.
  — Christopher Byrd, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2020
• On Friday, in the scant shelter of a few gnarled olive trees near the Palestinian village of Beita, a first field outing became her last.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024