He was tall and gnarly and the point of his chin rested stiffly on the slope of his shoulder.
And as he peers he crooks one monstrous leg and with his gnarly toes scratches himself on the stomach.
He pulled the face off one of them, literally pulled it off with those gnarly fingers of his and those tremendous muscles.
With his gnarly fingers twisted into the hair of her head, he stood up and roared in triumph and defiance at the awed Folk that watched from the trees.
They cannot be too gnarlyand crabbed and rusty to look at.
Some gnarly apple which I pick up in the road reminds me by its fragrance of all the wealth of Pomona,--carrying me forward to those days when they will be collected in golden and ruddy heaps in the orchards and about the cider-mills.
The blossom-laden bough of a gnarly old tree bent over her head and sent a gust of fragrance past her that made her close her eyes an instant and draw a long breath, it was so heavenly sweet.
Wondering if a hidden cause of what appeared to be moisture stress might actually be nutrient deficiencies, I tried spraying liquid fertilizer directly on these gnarly leaves, a practice called foliar feeding.
Quality or quantity of spring harvest won't drop one bit if the plants become a little stunted and gnarly in summer, as long as you fertilize late in September to spur rapid growth during fall and winter.
Sowing date: It is easiest to sow in April or early May, minimally fertigate a somewhat gnarly plant through the summer, push it for size in fall and winter, and then harvest it next March.
The water in which the fruit was boiled can be used with the parings, cores, and gnarly fruit to make jelly.
Gnarly fruit may be used for jellies or marmalades by cutting out defective portions.
My own earliest recollection of outdoor sport is of “playing house” about the generous heap of gnarly logs and crooked branches that had been brought from the woods during the winter.
What though I am rough as the gnarly black-oak’s bark, have I not Nature for my next neighbor?
Promotheus opened his eyes and his jagged, gnarlyteeth showed in a smile, weak and trembly, but still game to the last line of it.
Old forests, where the gnarlyoak stands regnant Bristling with twigs that still repullulate, And, swoln with spring, with sappy sweetness pregnant, The maple blushes with its leafy weight.
When an awkward giant like Abraham Lincoln rose to the sublimest heights of oratory he did so because of the greatness of his soul--his very ruggedness of spirit and artless honesty were properly expressed in his gnarly body.
Even its bark and its gnarly trunk will hold converse with me, and its first tiny leaves of the budding spring will herald me a welcome.
Even when gnarly and broken, it does not convey an impression of decrepitude and decay but rather of a hardy old character bearing his burdens.
Many a stone And gnarly root, gray-mossed, made wild our way: And many a bird the glimmering light along Showered the golden bubbles of its song.
He spent a good many hours during the next three or four days lying in the shade of a gnarly arbutus which gave on the cliffs.
Back of it opened a hillside brown with dead ferns, dotted with great solitary firs and gnarly branched arbutus.
He waits you where the old beech throws Its gnarly shadow over Wood-violet and the bramble rose, Frail maiden-fern and clover.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gnarly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gnarled; knobbed; knobby; knotted; knotty; knurled; lumpy; nodular; studded; tubercular; tuberous
