gnaw

How to use gnaw in a sentence

For many dogs, gnawing on things seems to help distract them.

These are the kinds of questions that have gnawed at me throughout my 25 years in the tech industry.

What he’d “lost” by not hanging on as South Sea shares approached £1,000 gnawed at him.

The rodents gnaw down trees to create lodges and dams, and dig channels for transporting their logs to the dams.

I think we’ve been greatly underplaying the chronic, gnawing anxiety we’ve had to keep at bay to function.

Eating pure muscle tissue—which is what most cultured meats are right now—is liable to feel like gnawing on a hunk of shoe leather.

The species’s dietary habits further confirm a shallow lifestyle, with gnawed ancient whale bones showing Meg’s preference for marine mammals.

When asked why the fatigue is starting to hit now, agency employees and execs said that the continued lack of clarity is starting to gnaw at people.

For three generations it's been a sort of a gnaw-bone, to be dug up and chewed on when there's nothing else.

Then she lay down again, chuckling softly as she did when the mouse escaped, even though it was to gnaw her cheese.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985