Then came a big storm, and the river rose very high; the posts which were half gnawed through, broke, and the mill fell over into the river.
The wild elephants came, and browsed in it; the jungle hogs rooted it up, and munched it at their leisure; the jackals gnawed the stalks into squash; and the wild deer ate the tops of the young plants.
The Dingos worry the cattle of the settlers, and will even eat pieces out of them as they lie upon the ground; the leg of a sheep has been frequently gnawed off by them.
What dost thou think--that I shall perish here, Gnawed by the tooth of hungry savageness?
Such was the hearth which warmed the viper that nestled and gnawed at the heart of Randal, poisoning all the aspirations that youth should have rendered pure, ambition lofty, and knowledge beneficent and divine.
The walls of the cathedral are of sandstone, and have been so gnawed by the wind and rain, that the whole pile looks like a piece of very decayed cheese.
With plucked handfuls of grass he cleansed himself of much of the swamp mire that coated him over; but the little white worm that gnawed at his nerves had become a cold snake that was coiled about his heart, squeezing it tighter and tighter!
He barked, he bit, and gnawed his subjects' bones.
Who else could e'er have gnawed the net with which he was surrounded?
The sharp rain, drizzling through that place of fear, Pierces the bones gnawedfleshless by despair, And the heart's horror stirs the silver hair.
At last came an old man, heavily bowed down with grief, his arm gnawed through with raging hunger.
Fray Sibyla gnawed at his lips and repeatedly adjusted his gold-mounted eye-glasses.
The sergeant gnawed at the ends of his mustache but, considering himself the weaker party, ordered the soldiers to institute a search, especially among the trees, for the pilot, a description of whom he carried on a piece of paper.
One day he carried off nearly all the nuts there were in the box, and hid them away under the floor, through a hole he hadgnawed in the boards.
Others had been gnawed away with the paper by mice at Schloss Lischnitz.
A dull sense of disappointment gnawedat her heart.
I see," and he got very red, and gnawedhis moustache.
The houses began to dance before her misty eyes; she gnawed her pocket-handkerchief, and thought everyone she met must be laughing and jeering at her.
The women devoured her with kisses, the men stroked her arms and hair, and Richard stood silent and pale with pride, in his Napoleonic attitude, and gnawed his moustache ends.
They soon left her to her own devices, and the worthy Richard, who had imagined he was going to show her music off, gnawed the ends of his moustache in helpless vexation.
But he kept on his way, though the cold pierced him to the bone, and the jagged ice cut his feet, and the hunger in his body gnawed like a rat's teeth.
Built in 1820, Palma Sola had the white spread of seaside haciendas of that period: its porch stalked on salt gnawed posts, its Marseilles tiled roof defied storm and quake, every wall was thick and every window deep set.
This time a tibia is gnawed through, cut in two by the Beetle's mandibles near the spring of the heel.
With mandibles for shears, you have patiently cut my threads as you would have gnawed the cordage of the grass-roots.
A few strips have been gnawed through; a small number, only so many as were strictly necessary to permit the passage of the body.
Gnawed as he was by unhappy thoughts, wretchedly anxious as he was, he was silent for a time.
But for his steeds the earth no forage gave, Nor golden Ceres harvest; but his troops Gnawed the dry herbage of the scanty turf Within their rampart lines.
Seven times he had halted before them disarmed and dumb, and turned away with a chagrin that burnt his brain and gnawed his very bones.
The alíktchalgi or great physic makers sent some rats in the night-time, which gnawed the strings, and in the morning they attacked and defeated the flat-heads.
Now the bird had a bow and arrows; and the rat gnawed the bow-string, so that the bird could not defend itself; and the people killed it.
But still the sense of his wrong, and the hunger for revenge, gnawed at Logan's heart, and one day he came to Robinson with a piece of paper and bade him write a letter for him.
He gnawedat it all night long, and just at daybreak he freed himself.
And even when he was tired the feeling that he was being robbed of something gnawed at his soul; he was restless even when he slept.
There was just one thought in his mind; the same sullen, concealed anger gnawed incessantly at his heart.
He began again to be gnawed at by torture, this time of a new species and coming from another direction.
Odin looked long upon its time-worn, knotted fibres, and watched how they were for ever gnawedby Nidhoegg the envious serpent, and his brood of poisonous diseases.
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 11.
How ill I felt, how hunger still gnawed at me, it would be hard to say.
The whole floor, composed of sand and malachite, was strewn with bones, freshly gnawed bones of reptiles and fish, with a mixture of mammalia.
Are you sure that one of them hasgnawed this bread?
That settles which of the two gnawed the loaf," continued Sweetwater.
The appearance of that loaf had stunned him; one corner of it had been gnawed off.
The royal dogs, too, came down from the flat roof of the palace, and gnawed at the leather work and straps.
To have all killed wherever they may be found, without knowing for certain who are the culprits that gnawed the leather, is not just, O king!
People say,” was the answer, “that the leather work and the straps of a carriage in the harem have been gnawed by dogs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gnawed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
