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    Use "gnawing" in a sentence

    gnawing example sentences

    gnawing


    1. Despite his enemies all over the world, criminal, legal and personal, he was still on, still wealthy, still powerful, still gnawing and screwing his way through life as much as he ever was


    2. He tries to ignore the empty ache in his stomach gnawing away at him, as he looks around the tiny room


    3. more than the sound of a dog gnawing at a bone in a neighbouring


    4. She needs a fix and there is something gnawing away at the back of her mind; this man, a strange taste in her mouth, lights, sounds and the smell of unwashed bodies


    5. ‘But what happened?’ Kev asked, guilt gnawing at him … he should have taken her with him, he knew he shouldn’t have left her there with that bastard …


    6. Staring straight into her eyes, so close he could’ve kissed her, he said through deep breaths "When can we talk?" She fought off the temptations gnawing at her lips, and told him, later that evening


    7. They were missives which only contributed to the gnawing concern


    8. He felt tears well in his eyes and a gnawing coldness spread across his heart


    9. He began to have a gnawing feeling in his stomach that could only be described as fear


    10. Something bit him, a bite that was all encompassing, gnawing away at every part of his body

    11. He slumped back to the floor feeling dejected and was struck by a gnawing hunger in the pit of his stomach


    12. I was hesitant and anxious, even though Minister Lyle and Vera had assured me a hundred times at lunch that Spencer and Evelyn would not be there, and that gnawing feeling clawed at my nerves until we were attending the Lord’s Table and I gave my inhibitions to God and shared in His body and His blood


    13. The unexpected meal temporally filled the void gnawing away at Darkburst's belly, but all too soon he felt hungry again


    14. He lunged forward head over heels, his hands gnawing at the air for an instant as if trying to catch some invisible ropes, and then they fell limp together with the rest of his body


    15. Chapters 20 through 27 and 30 were added as a result of this feeling, but all throughout that additional writing the gnawing, while diminished, remained


    16. transparent capsules that had earlier been gnawing and scraping


    17. Deep hunger, gnawing at him


    18. After few minutes, gnawing on a fox bone, the rabbit returns to his typewriter and resumes typing


    19. I could still feel Adrinius and Zacchaeus nibbling and gnawing at my throat, my hair stuck to my skin united with blood and perspiration


    20. He tugged the large wheel until his arms were weak with gnawing pain

    21. Lieutenant Rymson had not helped his peace of mind and for the first time, he felt a gnawing aloneness that permeated his whole being


    22. What is certain is that such attempts have led to gnawing unhappiness at the best and gulags at the worst


    23. It may take time to find it, but if you keep it gnawing at the back of your mind, different ideas emerge in your head over time


    24. Fright gnawing at him


    25. Throughout the long, tiring journey here he had been aware of the hunger, but it had been a steady gnawing reminder


    26. had been aware of the hunger, but it had been a steady gnawing reminder


    27. There was another feeling gnawing at the the pit of his stomach that had nothing to do with his queasiness


    28. All the time however, there was the awful gnawing at the pit of his stomach


    29. He looked up at me from the paw he had been gnawing on with


    30. But for those of us with a tale gnawing at our thoughts, writing is a form of therapy

    31. Anyone with a gnawing hunger for an apple would suffice and there were always plenty of mermen around the coast with such an appetite


    32. Conan was sprawled in his chair, his feet propped on the ebony table, busily engaged in gnawing a beef-bone which he gripped firmly in both hands


    33. In that chamber, where a gaunt, hairy beast of a man in leather breeks squatted gnawing a beef-bone voraciously, stood the machines of torture—racks, boots, hooks and all the implements that the human mind devises to tear flesh, break bones and rend and rupture veins and ligaments


    34. What about the Indian?‖ Skeets‘ impatience was gnawing at the edges as he signaled his silent cohort to do the ammonia thing again


    35. He felt it gnawing his exposed face, like some invisible force, some invisible flesh-eater


    36. Bullets hammered at the cottage roof, gnawing at the walls


    37. This man had a much more serious dementia than she surmised and it couldn‘t be all because of a dog; a greater emotional beast was gnawing on the vitals of the perturbed Miccosukee


    38. The axes crashed back and forth, slicing and gnawing the old, staunch timbers


    39. The persons he loves and cares about are taken under fire and it will be gnawing at him


    40. the gnawing of hunger in the young boy’s stomach as he sat down to his own

    41. it keeps gnawing even when there’s nothing


    42. Explode feels something gnawing at his boot, “Oh shit! There’s something in the water! It’s piranhas, snakes or something!”


    43. There was a gnawing hunger within me


    44. But there was a gnawing thought running through my head


    45. Then suddenly a sharp gnawing pain hit my gut


    46. He slowly moved his chair back from the table and shook his head at his father who, of course, had just gone back to gnawing on a pork chop bone, sucking viciously the gristle


    47. But the gnawing feeling returned, but this time with increased


    48. Gnawing and gnashing of teeth were the only sounds I heard other than my cries of agony


    49. My teeth were worn down from gnawing on my forearm


    50. He was aware of the hunger gnawing at him














































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    Synonyms for "gnawing"

    biting chewing nipping