gnaw

Example Sentences

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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

And those spectacular surface catacombs and arches will collapse to leave extensive areas of submerged ice that will then rise up under their own buoyancy to gnaw away at the berg's edges.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 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

Frasier was eating those devil eggs so hard that I thought he was going to mess around and gnaw off his index finger.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2023

Beside her, Hord shuddered and began to gnaw his thumbnail.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver