gnaw

Example Sentences

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They hadn’t forced a takeaway in three weeks, a drought that was beginning to gnaw at the players.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024

While beetles gnaw away and burrow through the phloem under the trees' bark, the much smaller, flightless adelgid sucks out the trees' fluids and leaves behind a toxic saliva.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2024

Only this time, instead of letting the anxiety gnaw at her confidence, she accepted its presence, took a deep breath, and put on the kind of show that is hers and hers alone.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Or, if you prefer, an infected face wart that John Candy’s Uncle Buck would suggest a rat gnaw off your body.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2023

Other boys and girls bent over their paper, writing, pausing to gnaw their pencils, writing again.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary