Rust is eating away the iron hinge.
She was eating away at sunflower seeds
The girls were eating away at the melon seeds, chatting.
Ocean waves are gradually eating away the coastal rocks.
The children were eating away the whole evening.
"caustic:Capable of Burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action."
The acid has been eating away the sides of the container.
But you are also aware that keeping this secret is eating away at you from the inside out.
But lately he'd reached a point where the disease eating away at his soul was taking over again.
As it turns out, those jitters you feel after eating a McDonald's hamburger may not just be the contents of your meal eating away at your insides — it's your brain getting stressed out.
Looking at the stats over the past year, Windows 7 has been eating away at the desktop share of Windows Vista and Windows XP in equal measure.
When eating away from home, watch out for "hidden" fats (such as that in salad dressing and desserts) and larger portion sizes.
Recent declines in the housing markets as well as the equity market's gyrations are eating away at what had been won back.
And by obsessing over a nonexistent threat, Washington has been making the real problem - mass unemployment, which is eating away at the foundations of our nation - much worse.
"Grandpa." Little Horse, still eating away, tugged at the old man's sleeve. "We've got to pull another fare. We have no money for coal tomorrow morning."
If you keep postponing making decisions on small things, they'll accumulate and will end up eating away more of your time than if you had simply made a quick decision for each one.
More than 1.7 million gallons of water runs over the edge every second, constantly eating away at the rock below and pushing it back as much as 20 feet in a year.
