"away" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- My pesky packrat memory had turned up the right tab and now was pawing away at the shelves in the back of my mind where I keep the useless junk that I don't think about for years on end and am helpless to get rid of.
- The consequence is that the reindeer feed is buried not only under a metre or more of snow, which the reindeer can cope with, pawing away at it to reach the lichen that is reindeer moss, but under many inches of solid ice.
- Nothing moved save a sparkle of sun on the riffles, but it was plain that the cows had been there; the mud of the bank was cut and churned with drying hoofprints, and in one place, the dying plants had been pawed away in a long, messy trough where something large had wallowed.
- Eager hands pawed the wool away, revealing an eight-inch-long ingot of gold, the metal shaved away at one end, and stamped in the center with the royal French fleur-de-lis.
- Logan tried not to think of oily fingers pawing away at the schoolgirl.
- It twisted ever so slightly, keeping one eye on the two warriors, while turning the other on the halfling pawing at the rubble not twenty feet away.
- And in the 72nd minute Distillery keeper Collins pawed the ball away on the goal-line as Gardiner raced in for the kill.
- Pawing away at the crack, his claw caught on a piece of cloth.
- The lion seemed to be keeping an eye on them while he pawed away at the ball.
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