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But when your 3-year-old is begging for it, concentrate on your kid’s joy instead of dreaming of force feeding a cold pizza of gravel and gnats to that singer.
5.—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2025 Watch this video for an easy way to get rid of annoying gnats and fruit flies.—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 7 May 2025 More than 7,000 of his satellites now surround Earth like a cloud of gnats.—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025 To avoid root rot or soil gnats, the planters should have drainage holes.—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gnat
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English gnætt; akin to Old English gnagan to gnaw
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of gnat was
before the 12th century
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