The word "gnaw" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the action of biting and chewing something persistently, usually with the mouth or teeth. Example sentence: The mouse gnawed through the block of cheese.
But this is not the kind of spectators the actors work for … And those who are brought to the theatre by force gnaw on sunflower seeds or talk on their mobile phones, disturbing the other theatregoers," she said.
Those who are brought to the theatre by force gnaw on sunflower seeds or talk on their mobiles, disturbing others Amal Khanum Gadjieva But Saodat Ibragimova of the Finance Ministry's Investment Department said that the project is slated to cost about 600m somoni (roughly $100m).
Companies establish matrix-management systems to deal with globalisation, appoint task-forces to examine new technologies, and add ever longer meetings until employees' brains try to gnaw their way out of their skulls.
Even so, the lesser problems of resistance continue to gnaw away at medicine, hurting people and diverting resources from more productive uses, often in the countries that can least afford it.IrresistibleConvenience and laziness top the list of causes of antibiotic resistance.
He argues that cuts in public-works spending and efforts to promote market competition are destroying the country's traditional fabric, and fears a Japan in which "the strong gnaw on the bones of the weak .In this section Failing to spread the wealth Why fix it?
None of this is big enough to claim a ministerial resignation, still less a prosecution, but enough to gnaw away at the trustworthiness of a party that is used to running the country.
According to reports in the local press this week, a ghost cat, commissioned by mischievous spirits, has been dispatched to the Kenyan countryside to gnaw off the genitals of men while they sleep.Such reports are quite common.
Oil workers caused a partial shutdown of Norway's oil and gas industry in July and threaten to down tools again soon unless they win a satisfactory deal on pay and conditions.A series of unpopular moves continues to gnaw away at the government's support.
In a desperately poor country such as Sierra Leone, drug money will quickly gnaw its way through the legislature and bureaucracy.
Unlike the grand coalition, it will not gnaw away at earlier reforms and might think harder about whether to bail out companies like Opel.
Hunger and malnutrition still gnaw at the region: the proportion of under-fives who are underweight has declined only marginally, from 33% in 1990 to 29% in 2005.
