Words similar to gnaw

Example sentences for: gnaw

How can you use “gnaw” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It makes no noise when they whack things with it (unlike a wooden spoon), and the blade gives them something to gnaw on, which they find very satisfying, and there's no risk of splinters.
Animals need muzzles to carry things and to gnaw on their food, whereas possessors of hands can make a fire to tenderize their viands.
The commentariat left nothing but furious gnaw marks on Issue 2, the fertility therapies behind the "miracle" of the McCaughey septuplets.
Frontier Americana Lickskillet, Ohio and Tennessee Gnaw Bone, Indiana Turkey Scratch, Arkansas Dunmovin, California Rawhide, Mississippi Cut and Shoot, Texas Hoot and Holler Crossing, Texas Horse Thief, Arizona Jackass Flats, Nevada Hell and Gone Creek, Oklahoma
As written and played, however, Maggie's scenes are intrusions in the best sense: They gnaw on Pistone from another angle; they add a point to the film's complex geometry.