Examples of 'ate away' in a sentence
Meaning of "ate away"
ate away - The phrase suggests the gradual consumption, erosion, or decay of something over time, typically referring to physical objects or structures
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- simple past tense of eat away
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Rust ate away the iron bar.
Corruption was a cancer that ate away at everything.
It ate away the gold plating.
It was exile that ate away at her heart.
It ate away at him inside.
But the secret ate away at you.
Ate away at your cribriform plate over the years.
The water ate away at her flesh.
Ate away the time.
The lime ate away her flesh.
Throughout evening his guilty conscience ate away at him.
The blood ate away her bone.
The distribution schedule was moved up and it ate away my lifespan.
They ate away her heart.
I watched how it ate away at him.
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You ate away till this table last night.
While the cancer ate away your organs.
He ate away with a frenzied hunger that drove her wild.
He was wounded by something that ate away at his flesh.
And it ate away at him for his entire life.
So he watched as the darkness ate away at what remained of her.
Limerick ate away and soon enough drew it up for extra time.
It would have ate away.
But it ate away at him.
I am recovering from an eating disorder that ate away at my teeth.
High waves also ate away at much of the coastline.
It was one of the contributing factors that ate away at my masculinity.
The cancer ate away at her beautiful body for months.
It consumed his life and ate away at his insides.
They ate away until there was nothing left of either food.
His smile ate away at me.
He ate away your share of the porridge, too.
The fear and sorrow ate away at her for over a year.
I told her it did not matter, but it ate away at her.
It just ate away at me.
He kept it deep inside, but it ate away at him.
An abscess that ate away that much of his jawbone would have been agonizing.
They used refrigerants that slowly ate away the ozone layer.
While the cancer ate away your organs like an unstoppable rebel force.
Wars had drained away her wealth and social conflict ate away at her young democracy.
They slowly ate away at the Democratic dominance at the local level.
She wanted this until the want ate away her heart and soul.
Gastric acid ate away at the skin, erased any trace of a print.
Little by little however, the years ate away at my soul.
And that ate away at Mitch.
If not, the boils turned into ulcers that ate away at your flesh.
While the cancer ate away your organs Selfishly I tried to keep you here.
I wasted away, and the radiation ate away at my gut.
I watched how it ate away at him, how weak it made him feel.
It… it spread like cancer and slowly ate away at the town.
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