gnaw
Example Sentences
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"They gnaw everything except metal. Because of the mice, we had to eat all food products except canned food quickly, or else the mice would destroy them all."
From BBC • May 17, 2026
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
Hungry mice then began to gnaw on whatever they could find, often eating young trees that were fighting for their own survival.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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