Thoughts of doing something that would have a greater social impact gnawed at her.
It gnawed at the economy, unmentioned in the zeal of easy deficit spending and borrowed money.
He kept his early efforts in a table-drawer where he found them later, the paper gnawed by cockroaches.
He dug it up and carried it to the woods, where he gnawed on it for a long time.
Their revenues have been gnawed away by the increasing adoption of e-mail by everyone from busy offices to your great-aunt Flossy.
Intractable rebellions gnawed at its fringes even as factions wrestled for power at the centre, letting al-Qaeda terrorists thrive amid the disorder.
Before it was buried, a large rodent - probably a porcupine - gnawed on the bone, removing a significant portion of the face.
Extensive displacement and widespread sectarian killings by al-Qaida and other extremist groups have gnawed away at the already-frayed fabric of Iraqi society and politics.
By the time their mother dies and the sisters come together again, they are spectral, haunted figures, their souls gnawed at by pain, neglect and loss.
Even in America, where the airline industry has long been deregulated, the major carriers have seen their profits gnawed away by low-price carriers, in particular Southwest Airlines.
Six hours later, after a long soak and a quick baptism by fire, a heap of gnawed bones would bear witness to the success of this utterly haphazard approach.
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