Sentence examples for Gnawing through from inspiring English sources

Up to 14% of inflorescences in some plots were destroyed by rodents gnawing through inflorescence stems.

In graphic testimony, Mr. Meringolo said Norway rats are capable of gnawing through concrete in search of food.

On the terrace, worms were quietly gnawing through Ms. Scholtus's kitchen scraps, making compost for her herb garden.

Squirrels manage to get into homes in a variety of ways -- falling down chimneys, gnawing through screens or burrowing in via attics and roofs.

Also this week a 7-year-old girl, Erica Pratt, escaped a Philadelphia house after being kidnapped, freeing herself by gnawing through layers of duct tape.

An eleven-page short story about an inebriated man who tumbles into a cave and surfaces from an alcoholic stupor to find that a tentacled monster … is gnawing through the flesh of his lower legs, the monster's spittle burbling ever closer to the victim's groin.

A rat, it later emerged, had gnawed through a cable.

The stadium whistled, groaned and generally gnawed through its umbrella handle.

For hours, the police said, Erica gnawed through the duct tape that bound her.

The teeth of the moving saw gnawed through a twenty-foot-long squared log, sent up a spray of sawdust.

The hamster gnawed through the envelope and was rescued by a postman, who decided to name him First Class.