Gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning!

I had this kind of gnawing feeling inside my stomach.

But each time, they were gnawing at me, eating at me.

As I pursued my career, something was always gnawing away inside me.

Never have I seen you like this. What is gnawing at your heart?

Never mind knives, said his visitor, and a cutlet hung in mid air, with a sound of gnawing.

I wake up with a gnawing in my belly because I see a new set of aid entrepreneurs on the continent.

But even with that gnawing in the pit of my belly. I didn't want to be in too big a rush to put on the feed bag.

It is remarkable that a single mouse should thus be allowed a whole pine tree for its dinner, gnawing round instead of up and down it but perhaps it is necessary in order to thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely.

Then, when We decreed (Solomon's) death, nothing showed them his death except a little worm of the earth, which kept (slowly) gnawing away at his staff so when he fell down, the Jinns saw plainly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in the humiliating Penalty (of their Task).

Then when We decreed death for him Sulaiman (Solomon) , nothing informed them (jinns) of his death except a little worm of the earth, which kept (slowly) gnawing away at his stick, so when he fell down, the jinns saw clearly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have stayed in the humiliating torment.

Holding a microscope to the first mentioned red ant, I saw that, though he was assiduously gnawing at the near fore leg of his enemy, having severed his remaining feeler, his own breast was all torn away, exposing what vitals he had there to the jaws of the black warrior, whose breastplate was apparently too thick for him to pierce and the dark carbuncles of the sufferer's eyes shone with ferocity such as war only could excite.