She shook her head wearily, the guilt eating her alive.

Eventually, Randy moved through the shock and began to see that anger was eating him alive and poisoning his life.

"How's Abby holding up?"
"She almost isn't." Keith sounded exhausted. "The guilt's eating her alive. […]

[M]any low-income people are "unbanked" (not served by a financial institution), and thus nearly eaten alive by exorbitant fees.

However, the album never even made it onto the record charts, and the critics ate her alive.

The media ate them alive. Sympathetic coverage, like Emily White's 1992 L.A. Weekly cover story, devolved into patronizing, parasitic parodies of "pink, frilly bedrooms."

For nearly the entire full four years of Frank's administration, the local media ate him alive for even the slightest misstep.

You may find that in June it rains so hard the streets are filled with a foot of mud and the mosquitoes eat people alive, but in October the place is beautiful.

“Let's go into the house before these mosquitoes eat us alive.”

I had to keep close to the riverbank, under the edge of the jungle, with mosquitoes eating me alive.

Eat someone alive

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