How to Use gnarly in a Sentence

gnarly

adjective

• This is a gnarly tragedy and there’s no two ways around it.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
• The gnarly, off-road tires — Goodyear Wranglers — clawed the earth.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2020
• Need to make blood and guts or maybe some gnarly scabs?
  — Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 5 July 2023
• Against the child’s shoulder, her hand is dark and gnarly.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• Jane and the rest of the team are in a pretty gnarly spot when Blindspot returns.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 6 May 2020
• From a gnarly lie in the rough, his third shot from 116 yards found the barranca in front of the green.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Datsik brings a bass-heavy version of the gnarly noise.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2017
• My kids like that gnarly bread with whole grains and bits of nuts and shards of fossilized teeth.
  — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• The buck had bases as big as a soda can, and was a gnarly, old warrior.
  — Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 23 Dec. 2020
• And the landing zone on Jezero was strewn with gnarly rocks.
  — Nicholas Schmidle, The New Yorker, 8 May 2021
• The strong scent of the bleach and the sour taste keep insects away, along with more gnarly pests like mice and rodents.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2024
• Goodbyes can be gnarly, but even the Goldbergs have to let go.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
• A few months later Sy is in a coma with a gnarly beard.
  — Zane Moses, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
• Meanwhile, Max's pals in the city tangle with some gnarly cats.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• Meanwhile, Max’s pals in the city tangle with some gnarly cats.
  — Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
• The big picture: Any such process would be pretty gnarly.
  — Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
• Buckskin Gulch is a gnarly rip in the desert that cuts a ragged path along the Utah-Arizona border.
  — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
• Dubbed ‘the wave,’ this swooping style adds a gnarly twist to a typical French.
  — Amber Kallor, WSJ, 20 July 2022
• The gnarly Ed was supposed to be a silent sight-gag character.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2018
• The Wolves are fighting to stay above .500 and the Mavs are in a gnarly slide without their superstar.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
• In the weeks following, a gnarly, pus-laden lump blossoms, then scabs and falls away.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
• That gnarly smoothie isn't the only thing that Daniel finds hard to swallow.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 1 Jan. 2022
• Reversing a gnarly trend The signs seemed clear — and ugly.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
• Wrapped in a hazmat suit, she's led to the corpse of a middle-aged woman with a gnarly bite on her left leg.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
• There’s nothing like a steaming bowl of pho to stave off a gnarly hangover.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 8 Feb. 2018
• Take the first one at the smallest circumference point between the burr (the gnarly spot where the buck’s rack emerges from the skull) and the brow tine, or G-1.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 2 Dec. 2019
• Sturdy rafters or gnarly tree branches will do just fine, as will the monkey bars at the park.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 11 Dec. 2017
• The gnarly fescue rough is one of the top concerns, though some of it was being mowed Tuesday.
  — Chadd Cripe, idahostatesman, 13 June 2017
• Joey King is recovering from a gnarly kitchen accident.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2025
• With no phone service to contact the outside world, the family is stuck there, sheltering from the predator outside as Blake’s gnarly physical transformation progresses right in front of them.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2025