gnaw

How To Use gnaw In A Sentence

• The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
• A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
• Fear gnawed at her soul.
• She sees them as ravening beasts that will gnaw holes in the walls and use our credit cards when we aren't looking.
• A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
• I have completed a monument more lasting than bronze and higher than the decaying Pyramids of kings, which cannot be destroyed by gnawing rain nor wild north wind, or by the unnumbered procession of the years and flight of time.
• I looked at him dourly and gnawed on my nail nervously.
• The porcupine will gnaw at the base of the maize stalk and drop it, and in doing so is able to get to the maize cob.
• Did you get to die a horrible death with giant ants gnawing at your body?
• By the time we settled into our beachside abode, I was in great danger of gnawing my own arm off with hunger.