gnarled

How To Use gnarled In A Sentence

• Gnarled and veined like branches of an old olive tree, her hands rested in her lap.
• Constitution, like Topsy, was not made but "growed," and that which grows is never logically perfect; it is like an old tree, strangely gnarled, with countless abrasions and mutilations, and sometimes even curious grafts. Without Prejudice
• Glorak stood next to a pair of shaggy plants, gnarled with yellow vines and hung with multicolored, fruitlike pods. Delta Anomaly
• He appeared to be limping, leaning dependently on a short gnarled cane.
• One summer night we sat outside under the gnarled 100-year-old trees and talked while his mom finished fixing dinner.
• Bill Harney has the gnarled hands and weathered hat of a lifetime's work with cattle.
• A gnarled and taliped and snaggy landscape where man might be seen as an afterthought. Cold Mountain
• Now the hunt for more soaring specimens of kapok, wild ficus, Dead Man's Tree, and gnarled kenip continues, as efforts to save the trees gain steam.
• These gnarled vegetables such as salsify, Jerusalem artichokes and celery root are about to step onto the food fashion runway. NPR Topics: News
• At the farther end it opened on a little cortile, where gnarled rose-bushes were in bloom. Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories