GNAWING in a Sentence
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52 example sentences for GNAWING, such as:
1. The rats was gnawing at the box.
2. A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
3. While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.
4. Scarlett sponged her face in silence but fear was gnawing at her.
5. Tom's fearful secret and gnawing conscience disturbed his sleep for as much as a week after this.
2. A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
3. While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.
4. Scarlett sponged her face in silence but fear was gnawing at her.
5. Tom's fearful secret and gnawing conscience disturbed his sleep for as much as a week after this.
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Meanings and Examples of GNAWING
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gnawing
v. become ground down or deteriorate
v. bite or chew on with the teeth
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1 It was a month before he had news, news that raised them to the heights when they first heard it, but later created a gnawing anxiety in their hearts.
2 Scarlett sponged her face in silence but fear was gnawing at her.
3 She sat down on the steps in the circle of faint light thrown by the lamp and continued gnawing on the corn bread.
4 He was not fearing the things she feared, not the gnawing of an empty stomach, nor the keenness of the winter wind nor eviction from Tara.
5 Scarlett's eyes went unwillingly to the miserable group gnawing on the ham and she thought of the sick man lying in the windy shack.
6 So they went home, with a deadly terror gnawing at their souls; and that evening Jurgis came home and heard their story, and that was the end.
7 Although fully aware of the gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the light.
8 One of them held in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which he was eating.
9 It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
10 D'Artagnan, who for an hour past had been gnawing his nails with impatience, was beginning to attack the quick.
11 On that spot, in very truth, there was, and there had long been, the gnawing and poisonous tooth of bodily pain.
12 And his jaw twitched impatiently from the incessant gnawing toothache, that prevented him from even speaking with a natural expression.
13 Such a town as that has to be always moving back, and back, and back, because the river's always gnawing at it.
14 Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.
15 It was like the sound which a mouse makes when it is gnawing a plank, and I lay listening to it for some time under the impression that it must come from that cause.
Example Sentence:
1 Tom's fearful secret and gnawing conscience disturbed his sleep for as much as a week after this.
2 Tom's fearful secret and gnawing conscience disturbed his sleep for as much as a week after this; and at breakfast one morning Sid said: "Tom, you pitch around and talk in your sleep so much that you keep me awake half the time."
3 The rats was gnawing at the box.
4 I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which gnawed me within.
5 A rat had gnawed a hole in the box.
6 I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which began to gnaw me within.
7 It is a blazing morning in the Permian basin, in west Texas, America's most productive oilfield; on the high plains a rig gnaws at rock more than 3,000 feet underground.
8 While the dog gnaws bone, companions would be none.