Gnat is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GNAT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• any small fly of the family Culicidae, of which the females are commonly bloodsuckers
• a small two-winged fly that resembles a mosquito. Gnats include both biting and non-biting forms, and they typically form large swarms.
• a person regarded as tiny or insignificant
• small biting two-winged fly
• A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.
• Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc.
• any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies
• (British usage) mosquito
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a small winged insect

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How to use GNAT in a sentence

• Ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
• The simple plot of the shepherd and the gnat was selected from the type of fable lore thought suitable for school-room reading.
• Why should we strain at a gnat and swallow a camel? Our boys have not taken to worshipping Jupiter and Juno by reading about them.
• We all know that we should feel that that particular Frenchman was a repulsive little gnat.
• Meanwhile, a gnat put him in a passion, and unleavened bread destroyed his peace.
• THE GNAT AND THE BULL A Gnat alighted on one of the horns of a Bull, and remained sitting there for a considerable time.
• There are few insects with whose form we are better acquainted than that of the gnat.
• Every little helps, as the sow said when she swallowed the gnat.
• Reynolds paid no more attention to the bear than if it had been a gnat, but sprang greedily upon the fish, which was wriggling and beating itself around upon the ground.
• Spite of this, the Gnat continued his way, and arrived next day at the general assembly, where Solomon was already seated.
• The mosquitoes are very troublesome, and they have a companion not less so, a large black gnat which does not sting, but attacks the eyes in swarms.
• Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
• But this would be straining at a gnat, and swallowing a camel.
• Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
• Mad with rage, the Lion struck fiercely at the Gnat, but only succeeded in tearing himself with his claws.
• Again and again the Gnat stung the Lion, who now was roaring terribly.
• Thus shall a sorry gnat become an eagle in the fulness of his strength, and a feeble sparrow change to a royal falcon in the heights of ancient glory.
• Thou hast made of a gnat a lion in the thicket of Thy Mercy.
• She soon found out that the cause of this, was the fan she held and she dropped it at once, or she might have shrunk to the size of a gnat.
• The weak gnat will become the strong royal falcon and the sparrow is transformed into the eagle soaring toward the apex of the Ancient Glory.
• The protoplasm of the gnat will no more grow into the fly than it will grow into an elephant.
• A mechanism made of mind, the first motor of which is the gnat, and its last wheel the zodiac.
• Since, after all, my fate was my fate, there was little use in straining at the gnat.
• The fish appeared to be feeding on a tiny black gnat, which we could not imitate.
• Poor Jane suffers worse from this gnat than you or I.
• Just as well might the gnat dispute with the foot of an elephant.
• Then Danhasch, in his turn, took the form of a gnat and bit the princess on her lip.
• A small gnat with large noiseless wings, is very annoying, and the bite very painful and irritating.
• Miss Mink had always regarded a man in her house much as she regarded a gnat in her eye.

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