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On his way back, he noticed there were two others in the backroom, a couple of men gnawing on pretzels over beers.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSHome, where nothing comes to distract me from my gnawing griefs and almost intolerable thoughts.
THE CIRCULAR STUDYANNA KATHARINE GREENThe poor Pompon, exceedingly perplexed, tugged at his beard, thoughtfully gnawing wisps of it.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDETSuch a town as that has to be always moving back, and back, and back, because the river's always gnawing at it.
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, COMPLETEMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)With all fed, there was silence save for gnawing teeth breaking through the hard crusts.
TIGER CATDAVID H. KELLERIt was a nice fresh bone that offered much palatable gnawing, and he was taking no chances on losing it.
THE RED COW AND HER FRIENDSPETER MCARTHURA drink would give him relief from the gnawing ache and perhaps a night's sound sleep.
THE GIRL FROM KELLER'SHAROLD BINDLOSSHere is the seat of the disease which is gnawing at the vitals of the republic.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRANK G. ALLEN, MINISTER OF THE GOSPELFRANK G. ALLENAs soon as the light was out there was a sound of gnawing—curb—curb—sweek!
OUR CATS AND ALL ABOUT THEMHARRISON WEIRWith jealousy gnawing his vitals he sat between two big, grown-up men, unnoticed save when he requested some edible passed to him.
WATCH YOURSELF GO BYAL. G. FIELDWORDS RELATED TO GNAWING
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- shooting
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- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- edged
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- knifelike
- lancinating
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- sharpened
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.