The gnarly seed that sprouts into a soft green thing and the sapling that becomes a behemoth, understandably, catch our eye.
Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too - Issue 90: Something Green|Anne Biklé & David R. Montgomery|September 23, 2020|Nautilus
Many of the gnarly, systemic issues underlying such shootings persist and have motivated millions of Americans to protest in the streets of cities across the country in recent months.
After This Police Shooting, Everything Changed|Sara Libby|July 29, 2020|Voice of San Diego
A helicopter hovered overhead, catching every second of the gnarly ride.
Top Five Biggest Surfer Waves (Video)|The Daily Beast|November 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Work, especially, sees you getting kinks out of gnarly systems and operations.
Horoscopes: The Week of March 27|Starsky + Cox|March 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Charred palm trees loomed over the road like gnarly fingers up through the ground.
My Surreal Return to Iraq|Louise Roug Bokkenheuser|August 21, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The individual thus addressed slowly rose out of his chair, exhibiting a squat, gnarly figure surmounted by a very large head.
The Clarion|Samuel Hopkins Adams
The latter had been shaved and smoothed over every gnarly place.
The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross|Gertrude W. Morrison
Her neck, far too liberally exhibited, resembled nothing so much as the stem of an ill-conditioned, gnarly young olive tree.
The British Expedition to the Crimea|William Howard Russell
If the horn is not cut close enough to the head, an irregular, gnarly growth of horn is liable to follow.
Special Report on Diseases of Cattle|U.S. Department of Agriculture
Back of it opened a hillside brown with dead ferns, dotted with great solitary firs and gnarly branched arbutus.
“Gnarly,” “Nasty,” And “Sick”: Are These Synonyms?Gnarly, nasty, and sick all sound bad, and do have negative meanings. But can they also be good? And can they be used interchangeably? Turns out, sometimes.