How to use "gnaw" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "gnaw" in popular movie and book plots

  • Georg shoots Nikos several times, prompting Nikos to reach into the wounds, rip some of his own innards out, and gnaw on them.  - Anthropophagous 2000
  • A bull for example, Bob throws in a river, while the mice gnaw a rope that held him suspended from a helicopter to shoot a commercial.  - Catch as Catch Can (1967 film)
  • A beetle volunteers to climb up the shotgun barrels to gnaw out the gunshotAR.  - Freddy and the Ignormus
  • Throughout the novel, a sense of lost heritage and memory continues to gnaw at the colonists, if only in a vague, unsettling way.  - The Night of Kadar
  • The rats begin to gnaw at the door and eventually break in to devour him, and he says to Ben, "I was good to you".  - Willard (1971 film)
  • In a final act of desperation, Benny attacks Gorrister and begins to gnaw at the flesh on his face.  - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
  • They un-muzzle him and see mice gnaw away his bonds.  - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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