Gnawed

Gnawed strings of lights, nibbled candles and those unmistakable droppings left me with no doubt that I had company!

Rat Poisons 2010

Gnawed by last-second losses in their previous two outings, the Spurs got redemption when Roger Mason made an 18-footer with 23.9 seconds left and watched Monta Ellis clank a running 3-pointer at the buzzer to escape with a 107-106 win over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night.

USATODAY.com 2008

The king ate the flesh and GNEW [Gnawed] the bones, And drank well after for the nonce.

The Talisman 2008

Gnawed sticks littered the near bank, the white inner wood chiseled as neatly as any carpenter could do, but none was fresh, and she heard nothing nearby but the sigh of wind in the trees.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Gnawed by hunger, and conscious that in a few hours at most the rising tide would fill the subterranean passage and cut off his retreat, he pushed desperately onwards.

For the term of his natural life 2004

Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Rodents or birds in the warehouse Excrement on the floor or stacks Gnawed bags or containers Footprints in dust Nests

1. Commercial 1998

Gnawed by doubt and irritated that he had not been able to run the missing man down, he returned to the Bukowski palace to talk with its real owner, and not that rather difficult American woman who might once have been its mistress.

Poland Michener, James 1983

Gnawed down by sneak attacks, hungry, bootyless, Ermanaric's host must at length trudge home over the endless grasslands.

Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

Gnawed bones were scattered about the dead campfires.

A Heritage of Stars Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1977