eating away
Example Sentences
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"That question was in my head for the 20 hours until I got the MRI scan results. That was eating away at me."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
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
“Those annual diversions by Los Angeles keep eating away at the progress,” McQuilkin said, adding that allowing water levels to rise is especially important as climate change brings more intense droughts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
