| The creature frantically gnaws a bone, while another dog, only partly visible, presumably does the same. |
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| She gnaws a steak with her mouth open, picks her teeth with her fingernails, laughs with a porcine snort and drinks beer out of the bottle. |
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| But as the Left Party gnaws away at its working-class base, the SPD is starting to panic. |
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| Italy's economic illness is not the acute sort, but a chronic disease that slowly gnaws away at vitality. |
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| This subterranean pest gnaws on young sugar beet roots, inflicting deep wounds that leave the plants vulnerable to disease. |
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| Ressentiment gnaws at people's minds and hearts and shuts the door on forgiveness. |
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| This ancient and universal practice has been condemned as a worm that gnaws at the fruits of economic endeavour. |
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| The anti-virtues that ingratitude is an aggressive cancer and which, gnaws the bowels of the unfit. |
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| It's good if your dog gnaws on something regularly, so it's not necessary to scale it's teeth, because the scale goes away by itself. |
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| So arises the question whether it is possible to find something that would totally satisfy the desire that gnaws our heart. |
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| The agony of being so close to our goal but failing gnaws at our insides while we replay the events over and over in our heads. |
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| The urge to change the world that gnaws at normal people in their late teens and early 20's was taking shape in me around the beginning of my fourth decade. |
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| As he describes why he plans to spend the rest of his days in Kisangani, a pet parrot gnaws on his Rolex. |
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| How kids compare against their parents' level of schoolingSOCIAL mobility, or the lack of it, gnaws at the consciences of governments. |
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| Then the humidity stays and gnaws away slowly but surely at the structure of the building. |
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| The pain of the perception of a new psychological disprivilege within an old privilege gnaws at contemporary white people. |
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| But a deep fear gnaws at them, and spilled into the open in Iowa: what if a Democrat can win the White House, then finds the country ungovernable? |
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| That, and the indifference of the young, gnaws at Bavarian roots. |
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| It gnaws both salty and non-salty objects, which indicates the habit may stem not only from a craving for salt, but also from a need to hone the continuously growing teeth. |
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| Such an approach gnaws at the very core of Europe's credibility. |
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| As she tries to cope with the misery which gnaws and who did it sink in alcohol, Alice Barma, commander of a police criminal group for 36, is confronted with two problems. |
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| Anti-Semitism gnaws away at that border, looking for respectability by attaching itself to ostensibly respectable notions, whether that be patriotism on the right or social justice on the left. |
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| A large solitary insect, the carpenter bee gnaws a tunnel in old wood to lay its eggs. |
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| That reminds me of the fable by La Fontaine in which a lion is caught in a net and is finally only freed thanks to a mouse that gnaws through the mesh of the netting. |
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| Erosion gnaws at the earth as a dog does a bone. |
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| The rat of time gnaws at the life-span without respite. |
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| Every corner of the globe seems to have some myth or legend about them, from Ladon guarding the garden of Hesperides to the dragon who gnaws at the roots of Ygdrasil, most ancient tales. |
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| They travel across grandiose but hostile landscapes: on Uyuni de Salar, the salt gnaws, the sun burns, and the cold at night cracks the stones. Above all, our adventurers will have to tame the Wind-God and endure its whims. |
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| In Norse mythology, the world ash tree Yggdrasil is tended by the three Norns while the dragon Nidhogg gnaws at its roots. |
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| As a logical consequence, poverty fiercely gnaws at ordinary Liberians. |
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| But the rat is not asleep, it's a water rat and it gnaws, as water rats will, from down below with teeth at the sleeping swan. |
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| Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. |
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| The field vole is a typical herbivorous rodent and feeds on grasses, herbs, root tubers, moss, and other vegetation, and gnaws on bark during the winter. |
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