1.   I was afraid alcohol would eat through the thin veneer of self-control.

2.   The chemical was so caustic that it ate through the pipes.

3.   And mildew just loves wood and paint, and can eat right through paint.

4.   As flames ate through Wise, Jack and Parker counties, state officials concluded that Gov. George W. Bush should activate the operation.

5.   As young, venture-capital-funded companies, that has proved daunting for them, eating through their capital, he said.

6.   Bedsores initially show up as a red spot, the tip of a growing cone of dead tissue that can eat through the muscle to the bone.

7.   A discouraging sign was the dozens of fires eating through houses in a Serb and Gypsy neighborhood in Mitrovica.

8.   A few days later, he was dead -- his lungs full of blood, his liver eaten through, his bone marrow destroyed.

9.   Bossart said University of Central Florida scientists will even use the samples to determine what the dolphins have been eating through a technique known as fatty acid analysis.

10.   But he still eats through a feeding tube, suffers from fevers twice a month, and fights back infections on a bed sore that is slow to heal.