gnawn

How to use gnawn in a sentence

• Neither shrink thou at the gnawn tables that await thee; the fates will find a way, and Apollo aid thy call.

  The Aeneid of Virgil | Virgil

• This ruddy giant was secretly gnawn by misanthropy and disgust of life.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 | Various

• The Cathedral with the top of its massive tower gnawn off by Fate is to be preserved for ever as a memorial of these days.

  The Challenge of the Dead | Stephen Graham

• Nor could they find a bundle in a handkerchief, which they would have gnawn through speedily.

  The Open Air | Richard Jefferies

• On the east side a strange section of gray lava and ash is gnawn into caves.

  At Last | Charles Kingsley