How To Use Gnarly In A Sentence
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The tree itself had been small and gnarly, withered and twisted like the arthritic seizure of an old man.
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Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
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Right now, a charming brunette in baggy khakis is wrestling with a gnarly problem.
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We have Wyrdsmiths last night and I get kind of psyched about tackling some kind of serious revision of RESURRECTION CODE (which has been, for some reason, a ddeply gnarly book for me to write,) and Mason's sniffles morph into a hacking cough and a full-blown cold ... so he has to stay home for school today, effectively munching all my writing time.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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Cramps, of course, can be uncomfortable and somewhat gnarly.
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The out of place plushie speaks of a summer love and heart break at Christmas, the gnarly key fob is from a friend who drove into a bridge abutment, and the plastic dog dish in a house with no dogs speaks of the dog that ran away at the cottage.
Astrology and the Kitchen
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‘You're supposed to be gnarly rockers, you're not supposed to sing happy birthday’ he mocks, but secretly you know he's pleased.
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The night before the trials, he shaved a gnarly goatee off his chin.
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The two things you need to know about Steve Roche, are that he gets things done and he does bizarre gnarly and difficult tricks on a skateboard.
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Grob was giddy as hell up there, because the gnarly floes offered a rare challenge to a jaded ice-breaker.
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The skate set-up included a metal three piece mini, gnarly street section of bitumen and wooden ramps and the mass indoor park course, which was gold.
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The waitress who served you drinks the night before is probably the same person you'll see skiing a gnarly line the next day.
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These mountaineers also know that they can't, like their lower-altitude peers, capture their gnarly climbing moves with a pocket quadcopter.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are small, dark, rough, and gnarly, with concentric growth rings.
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I planted myself in the rather aptly named Ghost Garden, next to ‘The Dancing Tree,’ a huge gnarly old rhododendron, all twists and loops.
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Yep, we have rolling blackouts, gnarly gas prices - over two bucks a gallon - and it's really not even sunny right now, either.
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It's almost as if it wants to shoulder some of the responsibility for the gnarly places it is taking you to.
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If we're going to do well in the increasingly gnarly global economy we need to get started with reform of higher education now.
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Those burgeoning sprouts on the gnarly bulbs piled in bins at a garden store can produce five or six flowers, each as big as your hand.
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Beeswax melts at a higher temperature than something like paraffin and you could actually give yourself some gnarly blisters this way.
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On two san diego luxury of rhythm and two isopropanol of maximum displeased lapp, perpetually cerastium sunfish a gnarly lozal of lancelike magnetron in introspectiveness.
Rational Review
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Low gnarly clumps of chaparral--manzanita and greasewood, mainly--bordered the old highway.
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Maybe it's the swampy landscape littered with piles of gnarly kauri rescued from the deep wet soil and the knowledge that this timber once helped shape the country's colonial beginnings, but is no more.
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It has a rough, gnarly look around the edges, the native fescue changing color with the seasons.
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Her ‘resort’ certainly lived up to its reputation as a gnarly, funky, retro, no-holds barred cult resort.
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Once again, I defer to Timothy Gowers and his masterful lecture, where he spells out in detail how research contributions can be twisted, gnarly things that are hard to linearize.
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In French bistros I order andouillette, that gnarly French tripe sausage which smells and tastes like the farmyard before the farmer has bothered to clear away what the animals have left behind.
'My name is Jay and I am powerless in the face of pork belly'
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If you're kayaking and you can't ID that gnarly rock on your right and then quickly shift to the waterfall straight ahead, your system becomes disoriented and you might miss the safest line through Class V rapids.
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Hence, I will not be blogging after work anymore but instead I shall carve up some gnarly waves with my posse of surfers on Sydney's northern beaches for the foreseeable future.
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More than 25 years ago, when I dropped the needle on a U2 album for the first time, I heard the words of a familiar liturgy -- "Gloria in te domine, Gloria exultate!" punctuated by the keening sound of the Edge's guitar and followed by Bono's gnarly tenor shout-singing, "O Lord, loosen my lips!
Cathleen Falsani: U2'S SACRED PILGRIMAGE: 'I found grace, it's all that I found'
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There, he ran into a gnarly old lady.
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Paterson had a penchant for Woodbines and putting gnarly blood red nails into food mixes with scant regard for hygiene.
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Yep, had a buddy place three cams near his feeders in Sept. Had some pic's of some "gnarly" deer.
Why I Love Trail Cameras
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I'll trade in my sandals, shorts and sunnies for a hip flask of brandy and a gnarly old jacket which can't quite keep the wind out.
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Wow, man! That's totally gnarly!
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The long and narrow peninsulas of the Midcoast region, which stretch from the Brunswick / Bath area through to the Camden / Rockland area, are often described as gnarly fingers that stretch into the sea.
Xml's Blinklist.com
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‘Parts of Scotland are fantastic, really hardcore, gnarly, dangerous,’ he enthuses, fidgeting as he seems to imagine himself negotiating a climb.
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In the meantime, things will get gnarly here on Earth Island.
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Your guides will have familiarized themselves with the river from a floatplane 200 feet above, so exercise patience when they shepherd you to the bank while scouting gnarly rapids.
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Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
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If an exquisite cantaloupe costs $20, why pay even more for the gnarly organic version?
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One of only a handful of female big-wave surfers, Gerhardt joined the ranks of some 50 men who conquered Mavericks' gnarly 25-foot waves.
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But to me, the thing is mostly funny - and it was, after all, named after a Vaudeville comedian who used a wild-looking bent gnarly cane.
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La Sportiva is now making bouldering shoes with a Vibram rubber covering to assist with toe-hooking on gnarly problems.
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My friend Biella, a tireless EFF volunteer who's also finishing a PhD in anthropology, studying hacker culture, has posted a really gnarly paper that she presented at the Digital Genres conference.
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Thea Andrews, joking, "1891 Victorian England was a petty gnarly place -- I like that I actually got the word gnarly in a Victorian description.
The IESB
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There's mutual respect among featured surfers of different generations, as if the old-timers, gnarly in years and the kind of waves they pursued, are passing on the baton.
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In any event there are dozens of stunning beaches along the coast, my favourite being Harataonga for its gnarly pohutukawas, fresh water stream, grassy rolling backdrop and spun-sugar sand.
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The owner Lou makes changes to the offerings throughout the week and describes each wine in a fun way -- St. Laurent is the black sheep of the family and Moulin au Vent is the windmills of your mind; categories include luscious whites and gnarly reds.
Girl at a Bar: Girl at a Bar Introduction
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The actual dynamics is more gnarly, to my mind, with nested and threaded sub-narratives of disruption, recognition and reaction (ump-thousand word blog post on this here).
Archive 2009-04-01
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We had a tree in our front yard which was itself something out of storybook, a big ol 'gnarly tree with a humongous rotted knothole on one side.
Boing Boing
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The left fairway is a shorter route and makes the green reachable in two, but it is surrounded by rough and a gnarly hazard.
Hole descriptions
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Long before the American Idolization of every art form on the planet, the great humorist S.J. Perelman imagined a gnarly New York painter being asked by a vulgarian Hollywood movie producer: what exactly do you artists do in the studio when you get an idea?
The Surrealism World
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Your guides will have familiarized themselves with the river from a floatplane 200 feet above, so exercise patience when they shepherd you to the bank while scouting gnarly rapids.
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I've never seen someone so gnarly get so much attention from so many women.
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OK, if a gnarly croc fought a Great White, who'd win?
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Now that I've gotten the whole Twitter thing out of the way, I find myself wishing that the fiasco that is Bike Month was also out of the way, since things are getting pretty bad or "gnarly," as they say in singletrack-slaying parlance out there.
Illusions: Fake Twitters and Strange Looks
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The first miles took us along the side of a dried out creek bed and then along the appropriately named Crags Road, so called due its "cragginess", basically a it's a dry river bed complete with the prerequisite jagged rocks at every turn, beaten down over the years into a trail but pretty gnarly at best.
Starling Fitness
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They alternate puerile lyrics and gnarly riffs with solemn songs about loss and longing.
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I know this sounds pretty strange, but the rumor is out there and would be pretty gnarly if so.
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Oh, gentle reader, that would be the aforementioned Milo, screaming, held upside down with his head in the toilet receiving his twice monthly swirly from some gnarly looking bullies.
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Part of this is the awesome design on the cans, all of which feature a gnarly looking jack-o-lantern face and very pun-y flavor names, but it's also the fact that for the most part the flavors are more drinkably friendly.
Branded in the 80s!
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But it's almost too gnarly for people to really get into.
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This systems view is essential for effectively dealing with the web of gnarly problems that entangle nations and strain international relations.
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OK, you probably think that whenever you've got a gnarly zit or your hair is frizz-city, everybody is as horrified as you are.
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Roast for 45 mins, or until golden and gnarly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bass player plays some gnarly fuzz bass that underscores the band's songs and adds rumble to the band's garage rock sound.
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Another, who is in a five-year relationship, burns with embarrassment if she finds her feet sticking out of the covers when they're in bed together, because she thinks they're gnarly.
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Most of the images show some pretty gnarly zombie make-up work that promises to be even drippier, ooey-gooey, and bloodier after some post-production effects are introduced.
First Images From Frank Darabont’s ‘The Walking Dead’ Arrive Online
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I'll trade in my sandals, shorts and sunnies for a hip flask of brandy and a gnarly old jacket which can't quite keep the wind out.
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It's better quality wood for pulp purposes, for making toilet paper or cardboard boxes, if you have a clean plantation wood, than if you have a gnarly beautiful tall old growth tree.
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They're tiny knitted creatures, with spindly legs and multicoloured bodies, and snapping at their heels is a gnarly-looking wolf in sheep's clothing.
The graffiti knitting epidemic
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But even in death the mangroves are unusual, becoming gnarly bits of modernistic art few sculptors call match.
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And this is why rock 'n' roll has suited him so well; a medium in which impulse prevails over perfection, where the right scattered images and gnarly chords can conjure whole worlds.
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The owner Lou makes changes to the offerings throughout the week and describes each wine in a fun way -- St. Laurent is the black sheep of the family and Moulin au Vent is the windmills of your mind; categories include luscious whites and gnarly reds.
Girl at a Bar: Girl at a Bar Introduction
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No word yet on cause of death, but since he was just in Africa, we can only assume he had the ebola virus, or the hanta virus, or salmonella, or some kind of gnarly rhino wound.
SOME DUDE JUST DIED
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Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
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Fifteen gnarly stitches later, Sandler was up and out of the hospital, but couldn't go in the water for the rest of the trip.
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But those weasel phrases get tiresome after a while, and people do tend to gloss over them; and, hey, I'm always interested in finding more gnarly ideas to take apart and play with; so I thought that even if I am going to blather away with my own jazz riffs on what I understand Todorov or Clute to be saying -- to grab these basic themes wherever I find them, see if I can play them back by ear, and if they sound right run with that, rephrasing them and putting them through the conversions, inversions and reversions of my own twisty, turny logic -- well, more grist for the mill is always fun.
Freeform Critique
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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.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
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They know the Nerf ball is as essential to the office as a fax, that pizza, applied correctly, goes a long way toward solving gnarly creative problems, and that when inspiration is short, team paintball may be the answer.
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I know you don't hear the word gnarly too much in conservative circles, but you're gonna start hearing it in the future!" the 44-year-old ex-actor told a crowd of about 200 assembled youths.
The New Republic - All Feed
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Vaillancourt, sometimes described as the world's grandmaster of intuitive art, lives amid items ranging from abandoned industrial machinery to a gnarly tree stump he borrowed from Lafontaine Park after the ice storm.
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He's a gnarly little old Aussi with a big voice who's done a lot of living and has the ballads to prove it.
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Contemporary British composer Nicolas Maw, no slouch at doing gnarly himself, was represented by "Music of Memory," a suite of mostly nontonal meditations built around a lyrical theme from a Mendelssohn string quartet that made several calming appearances during the piece.
News | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
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It's questionable whether he's a great filmmaker or just a clever fanboy, but either way, he has an undeniable knack for making his obsessions seem pretty damn gnarly.
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Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
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The match was billed as the young Mooloo bucks against the gnarly Makos pack, and Tasman won that battle.
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Even more gnarly - your older crew badmouths, rips on or even physically threatens your younger girls.
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It's important that us whites call gnarly looking black women beautiful, because we must, or we aren't human otherwise.
Ace of Spades HQ
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Hearts thumping, we slipped beneath the surface, anticipating a gnarly passage through silty twists and turns, with the blood roaring in our ears and pulses hammering.
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I came here to get drunk, smoke weed, and do some gnarly tonsil licking with hot foreign chicks and I'd ended up in this medieval snakepit.
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As I sipped, the waiter appeared at my elbow proudly showing off a plate on which two gnarly knots of truffle reposed.
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A tube can be rigged to reach bass in gnarly cover, to pick off cruisers in open water, or to coax strikes from even the most finicky bedding bass.
How to Catch Spawning Bass with Tube Lures
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This is a popular, neogothic, gnarly branch of saga-telling.
Times, Sunday Times
