Sentence examples for that eats away at from inspiring English sources

This is the thing that eats away at me, the naïveté on my part".

Rather, it's a cancer that eats away at economic productivity and organizational resilience.

Some bacteria feed on chemicals found in pollutants, excreting an acid that eats away at stone, metal and paint.

I'd argue that it's the absence of a quest that eats away at Frank, and makes him vulnerable to the day job as a substitute for it.

It must be the kind of new space that eats away at the old, and compromises what ancient fragments it leaves behind.

Perpetual motion is the only palliative for the self-doubt that eats away at him: "Ogden felt like a phony, a fraud.

They are things that eat away at the fabric of our city".

But now it's not just feelings of my own unfulfillment that eat away at me.

It was a prospect that ate away at their motivation to work in school.

WORSE, though, are the nagging questions that eat away at mutual respect.

The emissions are scrubbed of the oxides (of nitrogen and sulphur) that eat away at bodies and buildings.