gnaw

Example Sentences

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Outside, beavers gnaw at the vegetation around the chilly waters.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

While beetles gnaw away and burrow through the phloem under the trees' bark, the much smaller, flightless adelgid sucks out the trees' fluids and leaves behind a toxic saliva.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2024

Only this time, instead of letting the anxiety gnaw at her confidence, she accepted its presence, took a deep breath, and put on the kind of show that is hers and hers alone.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Frasier was eating those devil eggs so hard that I thought he was going to mess around and gnaw off his index finger.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2023

“But—I know and you know, dear Frank, that...the rats swarm back and begin to gnaw at the same old spot, the moment the dog’s back is turned.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson