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.
month by month, the betrayal gnawed at his heart
A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
PJ was the first to be ‘evicted’ for nibbling Helen's ears, Craig was turfed out for gnawing the cage, and Penny was thrown out for pinching food rations.
During gnawing, as the incisors grind against each other, they wear away the softer dentine, leaving the enamel edge as the blade of a chisel.
He can't ignore the gnawing feeling that she was right.
And without further parley, followed by his soldiers, he retired into the casemate, leaving Captain Servadac gnawing his mustache with mingled rage and mortification. Off on a Comet
I like the gnawing dissatisfaction I carry home with me.
I gnawed at my lip again; who, just who though, had wielded the knife?
But if the bowels are loose, with bilious discharges, tormina, vomitings, a feeling of suffocation, and gnawing pains, it is best to enjoin repose, and to drink hydromel, and avoid vomiting. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
The yearlong separation from family has gnawed at the conscience of troops who've served there since the 1950s.
Now, granted, gNAW will get the rights to do a Teennuts manga when Hell freezes over (I mean the other parts, not Cocytus), so if your reaction matches that of quixoticals, you can just chillax cuz it ain't gonna happen anyway. C'mon, Tell Me This Isn't Awesome
The farmer's dog has been gnawing away on a bone under the table.
Such a move would be the economic equivalent of an animal gnawing off its foot to get out of a trap.
You are fleeced by these landlords for their private benefit, and as well kept under by the public burdens of State, wherein while the richer sort favour themselves, ye are gnawn to the very bones. The Rise of the Democracy
A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
Despite its hardness, it can be gnawed through, after it has fallen to the ground, by rodents such as the agouti.
Oddly enough, the train beggar managed to control his gnawing hunger for long enough to keep begging. It *is* heroin, right?
Before we had been long on the Barrier he developed mischievous habits and became a rope eater and gnawer of other ponies 'fringes, as we called the coloured tassels we hung over their eyes to ward off snow-blindness. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
She was young, too, though no one guessed it; so the gnawing was the fiercer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
Both girls ceased their jitters and tried to stand at ease, gnawing away at their lips.
What remains around the stone can be sliced off and then, as a last resort, gnawed with the teeth.
Alongside the Flea's concerns about global colding and fascist medievalism is the gnawing anxiety we are all going to be pasted by an asteroid.
Huh? Let's see here - I'm walking along, minding my own business, through a world in which armed gangs of oakies are occasionally trying to gnaw my arm off, when without warning, some stranger shoots me in the leg with an arrow. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Despite their morphological and ecological diversity, all rodents share one characteristic: their dentition is highly specialized for gnawing.
Among them were the teeth of a gnawer, equalling in size and closely resembling those of the Capybara, whose habits have been described; and therefore, probably, an aquatic animal. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
Tumour of blood capillary gnawing flesh, in fluctuation jaw is bitten forcibly when tightening swollen content apophysis, after loosening, disappear.
Spittoons still grace the chamber, should any senator wish to gnaw on a bit of chaw, but senators are not permitted to use laptops on the floor.
Spartan boy who let a beast gnaw out his bowels till he died without expressing a groan, is a faint bodily image of this dilaceration of the spirit and exenteration of the inmost mind, which Calantha with English literary criticism
Driving for three hours was like knocking over an anthill and daring a hundred little creatures to gnaw on my nerve endings. Chocolate & Vicodin
So-called open-root teeth are common to animals that gnaw, such as beavers.
The dog was gnawing at a bone.
Michnik knows whereof he speaks and writes, unlike so many of those in the European media who are busy gnawing at the supports of the trans-Atlantic alliance.
The acid gnaws the metal.
I absentmindedly gnawed on some fries and chicken fingers while Patrick munched happily on his salad.
A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
The other half shows a flat and grassless prairie, gnawed clean by a recent plague of grasshoppers.
What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave. Moby Dick, or, the whale
Self-doubt began to gnaw away at her confidence.
To help keep dog's teeth in tip top shape, give them rawhide chews to gnaw on.
Then it is filled with refuse: eggshells and gnawed corncobs, celery tops, an orange peel, empty cartons.
Here was a little piece of miserable, gnawing confirmation.
This taste is often described as stalky, but if you ever, for whatever reason, happen to gnaw a mahogany sideboard you will recognise the taste.
It's not like there was anything special to see anyway, just a sophomore with mayonnaise dripping down the side of her mouth as she gnawed on a piece of lettuce.
Located in the Mehakelegnaw Zone of the Tigray Region near the base of the Adwa mountains, the city has an elevation of 2130 metres. WN.com - Business News
The roofs have collapsed, the ruined towers, the high gate unbarred, frost in the mortar, the ramparts gaping, rent, fallen, gnawed through by age.
And as Binford had argued in his debate with the prehistorian Glynn Isaac, an archaeologist who assumed that early humans were great hunters might misinterpret a collection of gazelle bones as evidence of a glorious Great Hunt rather than recognizing them as the gnawed scraps left behind by hungry hyenas. The Goddess and the Bull
Boat builders gnawed with adzes at skeletal timbers. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
The elusiveness of the leader and his lieutenants has gnawed at officials and has cast doubt on their claims of having disrupted the group.
Better fall to my death when the trunk is gnawed off by the rats than be killed by the lion.
I had this gnawing, worried feeling in the pit of my stomach, wondering if any farmers would show up.
In this densely populated city there are bound to be rare cases of octogenarians abandoned by their children, cases that gnaw at the consciences of upright people.
IT is a weary thing to lie tossing restlessly from side to side, sleepless, through the silent watches of the night, spirit and matter warring against each other -- the sword gnawing and corroding its sheath. Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
The puppy is irritatingly fond of gnawing at the bottom of my moleskins.
The rats gnawed away some of her furniture.
Corruption is very critical not just because it is economically critical and paralyzing our legal system, but it too has been gnawing at our ability to develop a sense of solidarity.
What is gnawing at my gizzard?
And she does so in language that is routinely sublime; much of her prose jauntily gnaws on the page (Clinton "had not changed her name after marrying her big-pawed law school swain"; Rachel Maddow succeeded "thanks to a combination of brisk thinking and galumphing good cheer"), causing this reader to alternately grin and scurry to a dictionary. AJ Rossmiller: Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election
I have been thinking that the apparent opening at the chalaza end must have been withering or perhaps gnawing by some very minute insects, as the ovarium is open at the upper end. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
Doubts about his work and writing gnawed at him.
As the song changed Trey sighed and turned down the music, he gnawed on his lip for a while before asking timidly, ‘Pixie?’
The general cracked one between his front teeth, tossed the shell into a com - munal basket in the center of the long table, and gnawed on the nutmeat Soon the room was filled with sharp cracking noises and Hying shells. The Moment of the Magician
The soldier was exhausted, and the meager food failed to sate his gnawing hunger, but he wasn't alone or afraid any longer.
Babies like to gnaw hard objects when they're teething.
Gnawed arms ripped from the body but still dangling from the hands to the skewering pole.
While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.
He had never known words could hurt this much, that they could gnaw at him, cause so much pain.
He held out his hand to her and she gnawed on her lip as she reached out and took the extended limb.
Colbert is the opposite of Fouquet, abstemious, quiet, and utterly without charisma, working in the background to depreciate Fouquet's popularity like a rat gnawing at the woodwork.
Fear and anxiety were gnawing her.
They reproduce like rabbits and gnaw almost permanently because their teeth grow all the time.
Fear and anxiety were gnawing her.
enchained demons strained in anger to gnaw on his bones
Every worn-out, pasty-faced pauper, every blind man, every prison babe, every man, woman, and child whose belly is gnawing with hunger pangs, is hungry because the funds have been misappropriated by the management. THE MANAGEMENT
I've been gnawed by guilt about not replying to her letter yet.
The wolf has been gnawing away on the bone.
It may also be the result of gnawing doubts as to whether tasks can be successfully accomplished; doubts about our ability to handle situations. The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes
« FreeGaza. org: Kidnapped by the Israeli Navy Coyote Ugly: The term arises from the behavior of jaw-trap will gnaw off a leg in order to escape death. Karmalised
A rack of lamb was like the best sort of outdoor barbecue, rosy, tender with deliciously charred bits that had to be gnawed off the bone.
He kept the state treasure in banknotes in a shoebox beneath his bed, where it was devalued from time to time by the gnawing of rats.
Rabbits still manage to find a way in. I am sure that some have even taken to gnawing through the metal.
The British food watchdog is asking fast-food restaurants to add calorie-counts to their menus -- and want to adopt a set of "traffic light" labels that indicate dangerously high levels of salt, fat, sugar (or, presumably, eyeball-gnawing maggots, see post below). Boing Boing
The farmer's dog has been gnawing away on a bone under the table.
Anxiety gnawed at his heart.
As I gnawed at the greasy meat the lettuce and mayo slid out of the bun, plopping into the paper cone.
While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.
As the tides push and suck at the shores, glaciers gnaw at mountains and rivers scour gaping canyons out of gullies, one sees plain evidence of the earth's state of continual transition.
I eyed a buxom coral trout with blue spots on a pink background - they make good eating - and listened to the parrotfish gnawing the coral.
Even low-sugar rusks can contain up to 15 percent sugar so give crusts of toast or a scrubbed carrot to gnaw on instead.
Then of course there were the rats that gnawed at the cables.
There was only a small cluster of bright dancing flames in the back seat now, gnawing on the blackened springs. SPIDERTOWN
He glanced over, she gnawed on her pencil reading the page.
Instead of anticipation, however, what he felt was a gnawing insecurity and jealousy.
Something scarified my throat and gnawed the marrow of my bones. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
I don't know if you have a copy of that book but it's one of the few scraps that fans can gnaw at until they put out full reprints. The Googlemeister Is In
Quern-licker, the daughter of Ham-gnawer the king: she bare me in the mouse-hole and nourished me with food, figs and nuts and dainties of all kinds. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Doubts began to gnaw away at him. Times, Sunday Times
Arthur, I will accomplish my message for all your fearful words; and went forth by the crest of that hill, and saw where he sat at supper gnawing on a limb of a man, baking his broad limbs by the fire, and breechless, and three fair damosels turning three broaches whereon were broached twelve young children late born, like young birds. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
But the sexist implication of his comment gnawed at me. Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: Retiring Athletes and Aging Beauty Queens: Shared Destinies?
I thought that rending the bloody veil from my horrible fate could make thy proud heart stoop to the discipline of the church, I could find in my heart to tell thee a tale, which I have hitherto kept gnawing at my vitals in concealment, like the self-devoted youth of heathenesse. The Talisman
The storms of years had washed the paint from it; it had "hogged" in the roof where the great square chimney projected its nicked bulk from among loosened bricks scattered on the shingles; and from knife-gnawed "deacon-seat" on the porch to window-blind, dangling from one hinge on the broad gable, the old structure was seedy indeed. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
I thought at first the sea might someday gnaw through the narrow midsection of the island.
I had a gnawing feeling all day that I was being followed and then, sure enough, I spotted her peeping out from under a waterproof poncho not ten yards behind me.
The gaunt-faced man smiled to himself; he gnawed on a toothpick as the rolling country north of the river opened up before him.
Doubts began to gnaw away at him. Times, Sunday Times
One explained it as ` ` to prime, '' as when one primes a musket, from O.Fr. _amorce_, powder for the touchhole (Cotgrave), and the other by ` ` to bite '' (Lat. _mordere_), hence ` ` to indulge in biting, stinging or gnawing thoughts of slaughter. '' Literary Blunders
A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
Evolutionary indoctrination had gradually gnawed away at his faith and he had wondered more and more about the truthfulness of the Bible account of history.
We landed, disembarked and entered the terminal building, a dank shell of gnawed concrete.
They may have eaten a Victoria plum, though I doubt they'll have gnawed on a Russet.
The rats was gnawing at the box.
Boneless One 42 gnaws his foot in his fireless house and wretched home; for the sun shows him no pastures to make for, but goes to and fro over the land and city of dusky men 43, and shines more sluggishly upon the whole race of the Hellenes. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Boat builders gnawed with adzes at skeletal timbers. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
Boat builders gnawed with adzes at skeletal timbers. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
_Bête Noire_, my _bête noire_, and so I called him, and as he is by no means averse to eating through his head rope when picketed, I find that the curtailment to "gnaw" is satisfactory enough as far as names go. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
The bones of the cutlets were decorated with pink frills - and yesterday he had gnawn ham from the bone! Jacob's Room
Dexter gnawed his pen thoughtfully.
She gnaws a steak with her mouth open, picks her teeth with her fingernails, laughs with a porcine snort and drinks beer out of the bottle.
The same impurities found in the stream are also found in the lake, where the water is so saturated with salt, boracic acid, etc., that one can no more sink in it than in the water of the Great Salt lake; and I found it so saturated that after swimming in it a little while the skin all over my body was gnawed and made very sore by the acids. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
Woodlice attack living plants and gnaw at the stems.
The groundhogs have chewed through countless car wires and insulation, and have even been found by unsuspecting mechanics nestled under car hoods, still perniciously gnawing.
Ants covered the plants and gnawed the tiny seeds out of the string-like pods.
Early one morning, I entered my kitchen and found a persimmon and an apple partly gnawed.
We landed, disembarked and entered the terminal building, a dank shell of gnawed concrete.
The cat began to gnaw at the skin of the dead snake.
Paleontologists contend the ancient gnaw marks are among the strongest evidence yet that some dinosaurs indeed were cannibals.
The lucky recipient would then chew upon the remaining flesh of the fruit before it went completely and unappetisingly brown from contact with the air, like a dog gnawing a bone dropped from the master's table.
The rodents replaced the multituberculates in the small gnawing herbivore guild.
The moors open up, the narrow, wooded valleys roll away and the gnawing lifestyle envy kicks in.
But something—a little worm of perverse honorableness gnawing at my heart or was it some other part of me? Kalooki Nights
She didn't gnaw the flowers, I didn't put the hose down the burrow.
Simon gnawed furtively at his onion.
There is the possible exception of panda bears, which are cute and cuddly and would probably rather gnaw your skull than breed.
Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
At the same time, feared gnawed at her every night.
Close to her we discover one of the lords of creation gnawing a bare bone, which an equally ravenous bull-dog endeavours to snatch from his mouth.
Having been trained by the Kennedy's dog trainers, the black and white puppy reportedly made no toileting errors and did not gnaw on the furniture.
Generally it is a husband whose wife is forcing the diet on him and whips the luscious meal away from him cruelly, and he is forced to watch the rest of the family eat it while he gnaws a celery stick.
Most of her subjects took three years to find the work that finally quieted their gnawing sense of discontent.
At some stage or the other in our lives we experience the gnawing pangs of an emotion which defies definition.
I drove forward to the entrance and gnawed my fingernails until a man parallel to me on the left honked and waved at me to go, forfeiting his turn through the intersection.
The eternal buttresses of the hills stand to the eyes of the fleeting generations as emblems of permanence, and yet winter storms and summer heats, and the slow processes of decay which we call the gnawing of time, are ever working upon them, and changing their forms, and at last they shall pass. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
I slowly gnawed at my food and eventually gave up eating.
The river was dangerous here, still gnawing at the rim of the path.
All of this leaves gnawing questions, questions that erode consumer confidence.
Don't be gnawing on one of those mangey, flea-bitten, critters. After you shoot a coyote what do you do with it do you eat it keep the fur or get a full body mount, ive never been coyote hunti
I feel the discontent crawl up and gnaw at my insides.
The wolf has been gnawing away on the bone.
It hurt, this feeling of helplessness that gnawed at his insides.
But the ameba things came on in ever-increasing throngs, creatures that gnawed and slobbered at the anti-entropy, eating into it, flaking it away, drilling their way through it. Empire
During the press conference, Buffett took a bag of peanut brittle from Munger -- saying "I'll get that Charlie" -- and ostentatiously gnawed it open with his teeth.
He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high. Youthful Bible Commentators
I eyed a buxom coral trout with blue spots on a pink background - they make good eating - and listened to the parrotfish gnawing the coral.
The wrong done him by the TRANSCONTINENTAL loomed colossal, for strong upon him were all the dreary months of vain yearning, of hunger and privation, and his present hunger awoke and gnawed at him, reminding him that he had eaten nothing since the day before, and little enough then. Chapter 33
When I see those TV commercials of silverback Baby Boomers sprinting with vintage surfboards toward ever-higher-yielding money-market funds, I feel both Boomer derision and a gnawing dread that my own funds are not similarly accruing (and in fact they are not — but maybe, to offset the losses, Brian Grazer will option my book?). Class Dismissed
The dog was gnawing a bone.
They gnaw on their own bones to make themselves skinny.
Sacks and boxes containing food had been gnawed by rats and droppings were found throughout the premises.
Survivors recall eating leaves and grass or gnawing on bones left out for the dogs. The Sun
Edna O'Brien talks about how her new book, Wild Decembers — in which heartache is prefigured by a tractor — fits in with her own "inner gnaw. On Fiction
A sharp stab of hunger gnawed at Vincent's gut as he trudged along the dunes of sand that rose and fell like waves frozen in time.
I drove forward to the entrance and gnawed my fingernails until a man parallel to me on the left honked and waved at me to go, forfeiting his turn through the intersection.
Moslem lieu commun; usually man is likened to one suspended in a bottomless well by a thin rope at which a rodent is continually gnawing and who amuses himself in licking a few drops of honey left by bees on the revetement. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The dog has been gnawing away on the bone all day.
Jealousy gave him respite from gnawing pains of melancholy.
A serpent and its children perpetually gnawed at its roots.
The rope gnawed at the tender skin of her wrists.
He told it to me not because it was dazzling or fancy in any way, but because it was gnawing at him, stirring him, and it had to come out.
And yet the offence these ne'er-do-wells give is as nothing compared with the harm caused by a vicious canker that is now gnawing at the heart of this sceptred isle, this England.
The rat gnawed a hole in the wooden box.
One explained it as "to prime," as when one primes a musket, from O.Fr. amorce, powder for the touchhole (Cotgrave), and the other by "to bite" (Lat. mordere), hence "to indulge in biting, stinging or gnawing thoughts of slaughter. Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
Gnawing on hard biscuits and gulping down watery coffee, I listen to Woolford.
To help keep dog's teeth in tip top shape, give them rawhide chews to gnaw on.
The first people into the stores of Little Gnawing were now carefully filing out, anxious not to hurt anyone or even impolitely push past them in the crowd.
His failure to succeed in motocross as Palmer had in mountain biking, the X Games (six gold medals), snowboarding (five world championships) and business (Palmer Snowboards and the multi-million dollar-selling Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder video game) gnawed at his insides for years. USATODAY.com - Going downhill fast and sober
While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.
A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.
A mouse has gnawed its way through the telephone wire.
It may also be the result of gnawing doubts as to whether tasks can be successfully accomplished; doubts about our ability to handle situations. The Beat Fatigue Workbook - how to identify the causes
The dog was gnawing at a bone.
He gnawed at his thick lower lip or blew smoke in my direction.
The urge to change the world that gnaws at normal people in their late teens and early 20's was taking shape in me around the beginning of my fourth decade.
They pull fast ones to get legal prescriptions to alleviate the gnawing need for heroin or crack cocaine.
At the Farmington River we found several trees that were gnawed on by the beavers.
Doubt was gnawing away at her confidence.
Inward sorrows, gnawing thoughts that "besiege" men, doubts, remorse, gloomy landscapes, all afford them abundant inspiration. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
But underneath there is a gnawing mourning we must all tolerate.
Did you get to die a horrible death with giant ants gnawing at your body?
What then must be the pangs inflicted by a gnawing conscience in eternity?

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