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Gnawing in sentence

39 examples of Gnawing in a sentence

All the rest of that day, that afternoon, I had this kind of gnawing feeling inside my stomach.
But each time, they were gnawing at me, eating at me.
I wake up with a gnawing in my belly because I see a new set of aid entrepreneurs on the continent.
As I pursued my career, something was always gnawing away inside me.
And the whole thing left me really shaken up, obviously, but it also left me with this kind of burning, gnawing need to understand why he did it, what forces within him caused him to make the choice that I owe my life to, to risk his own life to save the life of a stranger?
There's an emptiness gnawing away at people, and you don't have to be clinically depressed to feel it.
Secondly, i only made it without gnawing off my own arm in order to have something to beat myself to death with by phoning friends for moral support when the plot became particularly slow.
Jazek, the main character, is compelled to struggle with an opponent stronger than himself: a town completely wrapped in profound indifference, apparently hostile, deaf to all his mute calls for help, while a faded photo of a little girl in a first communion dress goes on gnawing his soul.
Coated in blaring, overbearing music and weighed down by schmaltzy dialogue, this is one of those interminable films that bores you to the point of a gnawing headache.
The filmmakers obviously were trying for that supremely nasty moment in JEEPERS CREEPERS when the Creeper is found gnawing on the limb of an inmate.
But by sunrise, I'm gonna be gnawing on your bones!" ; and; "Let's play a game.
The only thing you will get from this is the gnawing urge of wanting the time back you wasted on this crap.
I kept imagining rats swimming through pipes into a toilet and gnawing throuch my rectum and out my peehole.
Let us hope the same can not be said of the actors, producer, director and all involved in this sad, sad movie made for (and by) people who like gnawing their arm off and wishing they were dead.
The head counselor over the Camp has his head caught in a cage after awakening from a hammer blow to the head, tied, with rats to feed through his face, shown gnawing within his torso.
The gnawing problem is one of “good faith.”
This is the fear gnawing at China’s rulers as they confront the unrest in Tibet.
With the United States distracted by its presidential election campaign, Europe’s leaders find themselves huddled alone, with the Russian bear gnawing at the door.
In particular, there is a gnawing fear that the US may yet choose the “G-2” option: a grand bargain with China for the two countries to decide Asia’s fate by themselves and over our heads.
A giant crane strained to lift a 12-foot-high slab, yanking it back and forth like some dinosaur gnawing its prey.
Moreover, the division of labor between the US and Europe isn’t functioning in the time-tested manner of old: the ongoing war in Iraq is gnawing at America’s military capabilities and resulted in a crisis of moral and political legitimacy of the US across the Arabic/Islamic world.
If a gnawing sense of ignorance kept us diving deeper in our quest to understand everything we encountered, we might suffocate in the details in one area and miss other areas completely.
I fear that China’s leaders and people will continue to feel a certain gnawing, inchoate sense of deficiency and incompleteness in their quest for global respect until they find the strength to begin addressing the crucial, but elusive, issue of making China an ethical, as well as an economic and military, power.
But since its collapse, a gnawing feeling of inferiority has crept into Russian society.
It will be of use to somebody,' and he moved his jaw impatiently because of the incessant gnawing pain in his tooth, which even prevented him from speaking with the expression he desired.
And as he refused, declaring that he was not hungry, while his voice trembled with the gnawing in his stomach, she went on cheerfully:"Ah! if you are fastidious!
In spite of his communistic theories, old scruples of education arose, and he contented himself with gnawing his share of dry bread.
The Company's back was too robust to be so easily broken; they might lose millions, but later on they would get them back again by gnawing at their men's bread.
Remorse for one thing was gnawing her.
Tom's fearful secret and gnawing conscience disturbed his sleep for as much as a week after this; and at breakfast one morning Sid said:"Tom, you pitch around and talk in your sleep so much that you keep me awake half the time."