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Definition of gnawing in English: gnawingadjective ˈnɔː(r)ɪŋˈnɔɪŋ Persistently worrying or distressing. that gnawing pain in her stomach Example sentencesExamples - I like the gnawing dissatisfaction I carry home with me.
- Every waking moment was filled by a gnawing hunger.
- I left the theater with the gnawing sense that a revered Broadway classic may have seen better days.
- The moors open up, the narrow, wooded valleys roll away and the gnawing lifestyle envy kicks in.
- Most of her subjects took three years to find the work that finally quieted their gnawing sense of discontent.
- They both acknowledge a gnawing suspicion Condit knows more than he is saying.
- The self-hatred grew into a constant, gnawing pain.
- I had to exorcise, once and for all, that gnawing unease.
- I suspect both sides have enlisted troops to satisfy gnawing uncertainties.
- He can't ignore the gnawing feeling that she was right.
- I have a gnawing feeling that it was not particularly accurate.
- Here was a little piece of miserable, gnawing confirmation.
- But underneath there is a gnawing mourning we must all tolerate.
- It felt like a gnawing hunger in the pit of my stomach.
- Jealousy gave him respite from gnawing pains of melancholy.
- Instead of anticipation, however, what he felt was a gnawing insecurity and jealousy.
- OK, it is hard to completely avoid a sense of gnawing unease.
- They pull fast ones to get legal prescriptions to alleviate the gnawing need for heroin or crack cocaine.
- His breath caught and his chest quivered as he acknowledged the gnawing fear.
- What then must be the pangs inflicted by a gnawing conscience in eternity?
Derivatives adverb A truly abusive home life is one of grinding cruddiness where the threat of violence is more gnawingly powerful than the beatings themselves. Example sentencesExamples - There is nothing so gnawingly horrible as the first day of rehearsal.
- To play it was mesmerizing in what I felt to be a gnawingly unpleasant way, like taking time and just flushing it down the toilet.
- Here one feels only abandonment and the gnawingly desperate hope that it will not always be so empty.
- Yet after the initial shoulder slump precipitated by more IDM-inflected digitalis, ‘Limma’ begins to reveal an infectious charm that, whilst nothing new, is gnawingly irresistible.
Definition of gnawing in US English: gnawingadjectiveˈnɔɪŋˈnoiNG Persistently worrying or distressing. that gnawing pain in her stomach Example sentencesExamples - Every waking moment was filled by a gnawing hunger.
- They pull fast ones to get legal prescriptions to alleviate the gnawing need for heroin or crack cocaine.
- The moors open up, the narrow, wooded valleys roll away and the gnawing lifestyle envy kicks in.
- Here was a little piece of miserable, gnawing confirmation.
- I had to exorcise, once and for all, that gnawing unease.
- It felt like a gnawing hunger in the pit of my stomach.
- His breath caught and his chest quivered as he acknowledged the gnawing fear.
- The self-hatred grew into a constant, gnawing pain.
- I have a gnawing feeling that it was not particularly accurate.
- They both acknowledge a gnawing suspicion Condit knows more than he is saying.
- I like the gnawing dissatisfaction I carry home with me.
- But underneath there is a gnawing mourning we must all tolerate.
- Jealousy gave him respite from gnawing pains of melancholy.
- I suspect both sides have enlisted troops to satisfy gnawing uncertainties.
- OK, it is hard to completely avoid a sense of gnawing unease.
- I left the theater with the gnawing sense that a revered Broadway classic may have seen better days.
- What then must be the pangs inflicted by a gnawing conscience in eternity?
- He can't ignore the gnawing feeling that she was right.
- Most of her subjects took three years to find the work that finally quieted their gnawing sense of discontent.
- Instead of anticipation, however, what he felt was a gnawing insecurity and jealousy.
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