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Sentence Examples I've seen several pieces of footage of such monkey hunts and they all elicit the same cold gnawing fear in my gut. When you wake up on a Sunday morning, you can feel the loneliness gnawing at the pit of your stomach. I left the theater with the gnawing sense that a revered Broadway classic may have seen better days. No one shook with more anger than when they glimpsed a rat contentedly gnawing on a slice of carrot or crust of bread. Both girls ceased their jitters and tried to stand at ease, gnawing away at their lips. The video shows two-year-old Sultan nibbling and gnawing on Easter bilby chocolates and he soon gets quite frustrated with the wrapping. One group, the multituberculates, were highly successful gnawing herbivores, and they outlasted the Mesozoic, surviving until the Oligocene. Kellie, 14, bought herself a ring, and she says wearing it keeps her from gnawing her nails. The rodents replaced the multituberculates in the small gnawing herbivore guild. By the time we settled into our beachside abode, I was in great danger of gnawing my own arm off with hunger. He sat there for a moment, gnawing his bottom lip in concentration as his eyes went skyward. Be it aching, burning, gnawing, stabbing, twisting, throbbing or agonizing pain. Such a move would be the economic equivalent of an animal gnawing off its foot to get out of a trap. I had this gnawing, worried feeling in the pit of my stomach, wondering if any farmers would show up. Gophers are rodents and have large incisors, like squirrels and mice, that are used for gnawing. All of this leaves gnawing questions, questions that erode consumer confidence. During gnawing, as the incisors grind against each other, they wear away the softer dentine, leaving the enamel edge as the blade of a chisel. The soldier was exhausted, and the meager food failed to sate his gnawing hunger, but he wasn't alone or afraid any longer. They both acknowledge a gnawing suspicion Condit knows more than he is saying. He kept the state treasure in banknotes in a shoebox beneath his bed, where it was devalued from time to time by the gnawing of rats. Show More Sentences Most of her subjects took three years to find the work that finally quieted their gnawing sense of discontent. The moors open up, the narrow, wooded valleys roll away and the gnawing lifestyle envy kicks in. His breath caught and his chest quivered as he acknowledged the gnawing fear. Nothing fragments group solidarity and self-confidence like the gnawing suspicion of having an informer in your midst. They pull fast ones to get legal prescriptions to alleviate the gnawing need for heroin or crack cocaine. Instead of anticipation, however, what he felt was a gnawing insecurity and jealousy. His mouth was always gnawing a unlit corncob pipe except when words or beer flowed. Symptoms include a gnawing or burning sensation in the abdomen between the navel and the sternum. The youngster's condition first emerged when she broke out in a rash while gnawing on a rusk. I suspect both sides have enlisted troops to satisfy gnawing uncertainties. In Shanghai, news about ailing octogenarians abandoned by their children is disheartening, gnawing at the consciences of upright people. He told it to me not because it was dazzling or fancy in any way, but because it was gnawing at him, stirring him, and it had to come out. Alongside the Flea's concerns about global colding and fascist medievalism is the gnawing anxiety we are all going to be pasted by an asteroid. Breathing deeply, I tried to subdue the gnawing feeling deep in my stomach. At some stage or the other in our lives we experience the gnawing pangs of an emotion which defies definition. The pain was a gnawing one and it rendered me immovable for quite sometime. I had a gnawing feeling all day that I was being followed and then, sure enough, I spotted her peeping out from under a waterproof poncho not ten yards behind me. Before I got fired I was gnawing at the edges of my expressiveness or my brazenness. Michnik knows whereof he speaks and writes, unlike so many of those in the European media who are busy gnawing at the supports of the trans-Atlantic alliance. You have taken to gnawing on dried pasta, the only thing left in your larder after days of gorging. Show More Sentences Laila lifted her foot above one of the air gnawing skulls and brought it down with a guttural grunt. But the guilt has been creeping up on me, grasping at my skin, gnawing away at my bones, chewing on my heart, mauling my conscience, and spitting out my toenails one by one. The puppy is irritatingly fond of gnawing at the bottom of my moleskins. Then she wouldn't be here with this idiot gnawing on chicken bones. I didn't mind eating the meat at all, but at that age I was just a little bit too squeamish to join in enthusiastically gnawing away at the poor little bunny's bones. The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills. They eat the foliage and shoot tips from a wide range of plants and also kill young trees and shrubs by gnawing the bark from the base of the stems. I have a gnawing feeling that it was not particularly accurate. But underneath there is a gnawing mourning we must all tolerate. What then must be the pangs inflicted by a gnawing conscience in eternity? My mother, who is growing tomatoes in her garden, reports that there are some insects or animals or something that's gnawing at her tomatoes even when they're still green. The groundhogs have chewed through countless car wires and insulation, and have even been found by unsuspecting mechanics nestled under car hoods, still perniciously gnawing. Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl. Alice Turner, 74, spent 20 minutes gnawing through her binds after two men ran off with six money boxes. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continuously and must be kept short by gnawing. The lower jaw is thrust forward while gnawing and is pulled backwards during chewing. A gnawing worry that I would be taken for a Greenpeacer, or that someone would point me out as a fraud and throw me off the ship unnerved me. Both ends of the bone show signs of gnawing, possibly by a wolf, suggesting that perhaps the Boxgrove hominids were sometimes prey to other animals. They may also nest in the attic or exterior walls of a house, where they may be regarded as pests, as well as fire hazards due to their habit of gnawing on electrical cables. When rogue vampires Rachel, Antoine and Jack come to Sporks and start gnawing on the residents, Edward and Jacob join forces to protect Bella from harm. Show More Sentences She kept losing the contraption to servants who were mystified by it as well as to the dog, Chindit, who would be found gnawing at the foam as if it were tender chicken. Gnawing on hard biscuits and gulping down watery coffee, I listen to Woolford. The first people into the stores of Little Gnawing were now carefully filing out, anxious not to hurt anyone or even impolitely push past them in the crowd. Examples from Classical Literature At night you can hear the whispering Ganges gnawing at the stone embankments. They've been drifted away into one of the deepest holes there is, and the rats have been gnawing at 'em. On his way back, he noticed there were two others in the backroom, a couple of men gnawing on pretzels over beers. It put a name to that gnawing, indefinite feeling she had been too intent to own. Then came remembrance, and it was far worse than the fangs of pain that were gnawing him. The thane was overhasty certainly, but one does not think with pain gnawing at one. The dog had kept himself alive by gnawing the deerskin of which the traces were made. Sickness, like a cankerworm, was gnawing at her life, and dragging her towards the tomb. Soon, too, she made out the insistent gnawing of a rat behind the mopboard. Wine could only exhilarate for a moment, to be succeeded by a gnawing nausea. Then he took it to the bank in shallow water, mauling it about, biting and gnawing at it. Nothing but this and the cheep-cheep of a mouse that was gnawing the wood somewhere in the floor. His perique went far toward helping him fight the gnawing of hunger. The miserable pigtail Mongolian went to hewing away at the saplings all round the stems, like a worm o' the dust gnawing a radish. A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearth-stone. He was dyspeptic and suffered from gnawing hunger in the morning. He was looking down, and gnawing at that tremulous upper lip. Some fearful secret must be gnawing at the big man's vitals. Nothing less than a stomachful would allay the gnawing craving of that great emptiness. Remorse in the sense of gnawing shame and unavailing regret is only understandable to me when some wrong had been done to a fellow-creature. Show More Sentences Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? But as the nite wore on he felt a gnawing in his stomach, that grew worse. Such a town as that has to be always moving back, and back, and back, because the river's always gnawing at it. So I sat seven days and nights, being yet alive, the hungry wolves below, and hunger gnawing at my heart. They would at all events have allayed the gnawing of hunger. One day Falk came upon a man gnawing a splinter of pine wood. The printed book, the gnawing worm of the edifice, sucks and devours it. On that spot, in very truth, there was, and there had long been, the gnawing and poisonous tooth of bodily pain. We do not toy with sharp swords nor hug a gnawing fox to our breast for choice. I took it, and began gnawing it, as serenely as possible, in spite of a certain trepidation and the nearly intolerable closeness of the den. Sheldon regarded him for the first time with genuine seriousness, wondering what strange maggots could be gnawing in his brain to drive him to such unusual conduct. Grief, gnawing at his heart, had not sagged his ample waistcoat, which preceded him as he moved in much the same manner as Birnam Woods preceded the army of Macduff. The gnawing of profound discomfort existed side by side with an incredible disposition to somnolence, as though he had been buffeted and worried into drowsiness. He nodded his head at the tables where a very miscellaneous collection of Europeans were now engaged in eating, in some cases in gnawing, the stringy foreign fowls. Into almost all Time's tooth has been gnawing, until some inscriptions have been completely effaced, and others can only be deciphered with difficulty. The black snake of wounded vanity had been gnawing at his heart all night. At times his mind wandered farther afield, and he plodded on, a mere automaton, strange conceits and whimsicalities gnawing at his brain like worms. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of gnawing? Words that rhyme with gnawing What is the plural of gnawing? What is the adverb for gnawing? What is the adjective for gnawing? What is the noun for gnawing? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words gnawed gnaw Gnats gnats gnathostome gnathic gnawingly gnaws gneiss gneisses gneissic gneissoid 7-letter Words Starting With g gn gna gnaw gnawi gnawin