eat through

The prohibition against soap comes from a time when all soap was made with lye, which could eat through a patina in minutes.

And because baby teeth have a thinner outer shell of enamel, which allows bacteria to eat through them faster, they are even more susceptible to cavities than the permanent teeth that replace them.

In this case, because we know that baleen whales eat through filter feeding, the study demonstrates that H. nanchangensis did likewise.

This was especially common before the holy month of Ramadan, when a family of four can easily eat through six pounds of tuna.

Leeches eat through fiber-optic cables only to become celebrities, interviewed on television.