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gnaw at

VERB
  1. become ground down or deteriorate
    Her confidence eroded

How To Use gnaw at In A Sentence

  • The porcupine will gnaw at the base of the maize stalk and drop it, and in doing so is able to get to the maize cob.
  • In this densely populated city there are bound to be rare cases of octogenarians abandoned by their children, cases that gnaw at the consciences of upright people.
  • He had never known words could hurt this much, that they could gnaw at him, cause so much pain.
  • As the tides push and suck at the shores, glaciers gnaw at mountains and rivers scour gaping canyons out of gullies, one sees plain evidence of the earth's state of continual transition.
  • I don't know if you have a copy of that book but it's one of the few scraps that fans can gnaw at until they put out full reprints. The Googlemeister Is In
  • Woodlice attack living plants and gnaw at the stems.
  • The cat began to gnaw at the skin of the dead snake.
  • I feel the discontent crawl up and gnaw at my insides.
  • What the revolutionaries did not foresee was that these changes would soon gnaw at the very heart of their conservative base.
  • Woodlice attack living plants and gnaw at the stems.
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