The rats gnawed away some of her furniture.
The root of this dead tree has been gnawed away by ants.
It smelled of Fried pork and the mouse-gnawed Army blanket on the cot in the corner.
For several days the mammoth sat outside his reindeer-skin tent, and may have been gnawed by hungry sled dogs.
Then she was silent, but the desire in her heart was not stilled, but gnawed there and tormented her, and let her have no rest.
Yup - they're all just darling until the day when you walk into your kitchen to find that one has gnawed through your window screen to make himself a snack of your tortillas.