Grinding (teeth) together

Usage examples of gnashing.

Then a second hand appeared, and a third, followed by her immense sloping head, its multiple rows of pointed teeth clashing and gnashing as she drooled noxious ichor and breathed in and out with a terrible reverberating rasping sound that, like one coffin being dragged across another, sent a cold chill up Bill's back.

Even so, the grinding and gnashing swelled behind them, faster than they could travel.

Instead they prowled around the grotto, their stone limbs filling the little valley with clashing and grinding, their steel teeth gnashing in fury.

The werewolf glared at him balefully, its bloody tusks gnashing hideously!

The insane youth was gnashing his teeth and jumping about in the frenzy of his rage.

Then they flung themselves together in a clawing, gnashing embrace of deadly hatred.

Kane’s powerful hands gripped the werewolf’s furry throat, holding those gnashing tusks away from his straining flesh.

At best, the ritual set farmers to gnashing their teeth so hard and so often that almost all the people of Milagro who still had them owned teeth which were very irregular, chipped, and loosened by the gnashing that ran rampant during apple blossom time.

Whereupon suddenly, gnashing his teeth so hard little pieces of porcelain literally spewed from his mouth, the sheriff jumped up and grabbed an armload of her saints and threw them into the holocaust.

But they skidded to a stop at their owner's barbed wire boundary, and sat there, howling and gnashing their teeth until he turned a corner.

They know he cannot get at them, and his gnashings and roarings are merely a lullaby, soothing them to the sweetest of slumbers.