gnaw

The creature lifts its head, nearly dainty in scale, and contentedly gnaws a mouthful of ferns.

Democrats’ task in the next several years, he said, will be to find better ways to speak to and remedy those gnawing concerns.

The New York Giants must feel gnawing regret about letting the spectacular Saquon Barkley go, and the Eagles don’t mind at all.

In watching Tarell soldier on while he creates, learning what his art should be as he wrestles with the gift of compassion, we come to understand what’s so aesthetically resounding in life’s gnawing incompleteness.

But like a million or so others in the UK, she succumbed to a disease that gnawed at her personality and cognition until it consumed her ability to function at all.