eating away

What was less visible to outsiders, though, were the termites that were eating away at the foundation of this new state.

Is Patty's guilt over her stillborn daughter Julia's death eating away at her?

All of a sudden, as the little monkeys were eating away, there sounded a rustling in the trees.

It is a subterfuge, a sham, and with fatty degeneration eating away the muscular fibre of their hearts, they snatch at it.

A seated cancer upon the face was eating away her life, as it had already destroyed every vestige of her former beauty.

But another and yet another appeared, little tongues of fire, eating away at the body of the balloon.

The gallant, delightful, carefree life of the planter class had been undermined by a war which was eating away its foundations.