How to use gnaw in a sentence

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• I must have spent an hour gnawing on the chewy taffy.From the entry chewy
• A mouse had gnawed a hole through the kickboard to nest inside the organ; she refused to use the pedals nearby.From the entry kickboard
• It looked like something an animal had dug up and gnawed on.2015, Bill Porter, “Final Leg”, in South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 257. From the entry Panchihhua
• Engleitner found the constant gnawing hunger harder and harder to bear.2013, Bernhard Rammerstorfer, Unbroken Will. From the entry gnawing
• The catch is that you have to be invested in order to gnaw on it.1997 August 4, Daniel Kadlec, “The Tax Bill: Money In Motion”, in CNN. From the entry wage slave
• That gnawing canker-fly, the printed book, sucks the life-blood out of the great stone pile.1910 [1831], anonymous translator, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, translation of original by Victor Hugo, page 176. From the entry canker fly
• I see a forked beast squatting on the midden of the world, red-eyed, regardant, gnawing on a shinbone: poor, dumb destroyer.1993, John Banville, Ghosts. From the entry regardant
• Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl.1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC. From the entry purulent
• The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111. From the entry team
• Smell of grilled beefsteaks to the starving gnawing their vitals.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 6: Hades]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 104. From the entry grig
• They were gnawing, like beasts, upon unclean food.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 194. From the entry unclean
• Some deep sorrow gnaws ever at her heart.1901 August – 1902 April, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “First Report of Dr. Watson”, in The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of…. From the entry puritanical
• A typical presentation will be chronic dyspepsia with an epigastric gnawing or hunger pain, both of which are temporarily relieved by food or antacids.2007, David Scott Smith, Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis, page 114. From the entry hunger pain
• Oris was stretched out in the shade of a mombin batard tree, resting on one elbow and gnawing on a stick of sugarcane.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 78. From the entry mombin batard
• Birds and animals barely get a mention except as pollinators or antagonists (step forward Sunda porcupines and Java mouse-deer, which cause much botanist heartbreak by gnawing on Rafflesia blooms).2024 March 2, Rachel Aspden, “Blooming marvellous: A love letter to a vast and vanishing flower”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry Java mouse-deer
• Looking down I saw they were covered in blood, not sweet honey barbecue sauce and that chicken wing I was gnawing on was the other white meat.2015, Rachel Lynn, Women of the Night: Seven Supernaturally Charged Short Stories, Bast & Rune, page 1. From the entry the other white meat
• What could be more selfish, more miserly—this in specific is what gnaws at him—than dying childless, terminating the line, subtracting oneself from the great work of generation?2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Three”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry miserly
• He was curmudgeonly about the level of spin that journalists were putting on Verdi 'celebrations' during his lifetime; the present levels of spindom would have him gnawing the woodwork.2001, George Henry Hubert Lascelles Harewood (Earl of), Opera. From the entry spindom
• 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.1986, Guy Wright, Sons and Seals: A Voyage to the Ice. From the entry Greenpeacer
• Sixty-six per cent described their subjective sensation of discomfort as either gnawing or burning, and almost without exception the distress was sharply localized, usually to a fingerpoint.1930 September 16, Ralph C. Brown, “Medical Treatment of Peptic Ulcer”, in The Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society, volume XXX…. From the entry fingerpoint

Meaning of gnaw

1. verb To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
2. verb To produce excessive anxiety or worry.
3. verb To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

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Questions about gnaw in a sentence

How do you use gnaw in a sentence?

Gnaw is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The dog gnawed the bone until it broke in two.”

What is a short sentence with gnaw?

“give something a gnaw”

What does gnaw mean?

Gnaw means to bite something persistently, especially something tough.