1. Wow, man! That's totally gnarly!

2. The night before the trials, he shaved a gnarly goatee off his chin.

3. The gnarly Texas scrub provides a vivid counterpoint to the fading sunlight.

4. On the way home, there was a gnarly car wreck on the side of the road.

5. There, he ran into a gnarly old lady.

6. I see conundrums, dilemmas , quandaries , impasses, gnarly thickets of fateful possibility with no obvious way out.

7. EXAMPLE : Champion surfers are attracted the gnarly surf along the eastern Australian coast.

8. EXAMPLE : My little brother paid a lot for his gnarly new snowboard.

9. We're going to make an awesome wood emboss effect, put bullet holes into the wood, and finally smoke 'em up to a gnarly Wyatt-Earp-just-walked-past look.