Examples of gnaw

• Gnawing anxiety as to the future is one of the most soul-destroying things man can suffer from.

• The black economy also gnaws away at the public purse.

• What gnaws away at people's lives, however, is the incessant, everyday crime and what they consider to be crime.

• They have gnawed away the concessions given to pensioners.

• One can see marks on the furniture where the rats have gnawed.

• Nothing gnaws away at a business man's sense of well-being than cashflow problems.

• The burden becomes too heavy for them, and too many old people are left to loneliness which creeps on them and gnaws at the little strength which they have left.

• Their case is founded on false assumptions and their arguments are riddled with muddle and confusion—rather like a lump of old timber gnawed away by woodworm and covered with fungus.

• Fax machines, e-mail, electronic payments and direct debits have all provided competition that has gnawed away at some of the basic business of mail and parcel delivery.

• Jury nobbling gnaws at the marrow of justice.

• Inequality gnaws at the moral fabric of society.

• What causes young men or women to throw away their lives by taking drugs so that their minds and bodies are gnawed by these dreadful substances?

• Among those fish were kelts and there were snigger marks on many of them, and some even had marks of having been gnawed by rats and pecked by gulls.

• They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be keep short by gnawing.

• They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.