gnaw
Example Sentences
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"Hunger is not something you can ignore or put out of your mind, it gnaws at your insides with increasing intensity," she continued, adding that hunger is particularly disruptive for children.
From BBC
AI could be one, as well: The very thing powering the stock market to records might be gnawing away at Americans’ sense of well being.
The road not taken is gnawing at her soul.
From Los Angeles Times
Those rate increases surpassed average inflation rates and wage growth, KFF said, providing another reminder of the costs gnawing at households.
From MarketWatch
He’s more comfortable playing it big and trying to create an operatic drama about a desperate man, consumed by greed and a gnawing hunger that has rotted his soul, looking for one last score.
From Los Angeles Times
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