Voorbeelden van gnawed

• The majority of fruits that are gnawed open by agoutis are 1-2 y old.

• To determine whether the effort required to access the endocarp content differs between infested and sound endocarps, we measured the size of holes gnawed to extract the endocarp content.

• The great mass of disagreement cannot be removed by a single effort; it can be eaten into and gnawed away only by patience and perseverance.

• To achieve that perfection we should need flex which could not be bitten through by a dog or gnawed at by a cat.

• I am sure all of us have gnawed such bones.

• He was attached to a rock and gnawed at by a vulture for 30,000 years.

• They have gnawed away the concessions given to pensioners.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• The tension was unbearable; contemporary accounts famously report that one spectator dropped dead and another gnawed through the handle of his umbrella.

• Since that time the surf gnawed steadily toward the base of the tower until 1935, when the site was finally reached by the surf.

• The observation of gnawed seedlings can assume leaf consumption by herbivores.