English example sentences with "eat away"

In Antarctica, year-round freezing temperatures mean that the surface of the interior ice sheet doesn't melt. Instead, most of the ice is lost as warmer ocean temperatures join warm air temperatures to eat away at the floating ice shelves at the ends of glaciers in West Antarctica.
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Ziri's insults started to eat away Rima's self-esteem.
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The chemical started to eat away at the fat clogging the drain.
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Painful though it was, the mouse continued to eat away at the cactus.
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