Sentence examples for gnarled like from inspiring English sources

The artist's fingers are gnarled, like a rat.

Another last chance was trampled on and perhaps gnarled, like a raw leg of lamb.

Pieces from his newer lines were also scattered around the showroom: weaponlike jagged metallics, clusters of Swarovski crystals and dark woods twisted and gnarled like prehistoric artifacts.

Their wrists and feet looked even heavier and more horrible than usual — broken from working the land, gnarled like the roots of old trees.

We drove on past young boys raking patches of blown-up road, the mangled rebar gnarled like hair; past America's surveillance blimps hanging cartoonishly low above the salt plain; past a line of camels cruising under industrial power lines.

On the other hand, Freundlich's "Head," from 1925, a work made of glazed terra cotta, gnarled like an old olive tree, loses little of its power for being broken.

A gnarled gargoyle-like canine with vacant orange eyes and a craggy voice, he isn't a quarter as sinister as, say, Al Pacino in "The Devil's Advocate".

By sixty, those feet had gnarled up like gingerroot.

For the next hour, we're driven through rolling hills, tawny countryside dotted with gnarled trees, like a gentler version of the Spanish Extremadura.

The Cole Swindell song "Flatliner" (featuring Dierks Bentley) wouldn't have been missed on a middling Poison album (because every record has its thorn) and Brett Eldredge's "Somethin' I'm Good At" is good at being inoffensive country pop (as an old Southerner, I like my country music gnarled and ancient like Willie Nelson or Hank Williams).

On Thursday he admired the swashbuckling of his lower-order partners while gleaning his runs like some gnarled old pro.