eating away

Example Sentences

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Shares of Energizer Holdings were headed for their worst day ever on Tuesday, after the battery seller said tariffs were eating away at profits, particularly in the current quarter.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025

She quickly set teams to work designing new graphics cards for videogames—AMD’s chips power PlayStation and Xbox consoles, among other gaming systems—and more powerful data-center and PC chips, steadily eating away at Intel’s market share.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

“How do you balance staying informed and not eating away at your own mental health?” she said.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2025

"For those on the lowest incomes, these unavoidable costs are already eating away at their finances, leaving their budgets stretched beyond breaking point."

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025

He was just sitting there, as big as you please, with a sandwich in one paw, and an apple in the other, eating away and looking straight at me.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls