CHEW in a Sentence

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For CHEW, below is one of 70 sentences:
Something, someone has made you realize that the unfortunate Mr. Wilkes is too large a mouthful of Dead Sea fruit for even you to chew.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHEW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chew
 v.  crush food into smaller, softer pieces with the teeth
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  He even learned to chew tobacco.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Scarlett had found that a drink of neat brandy before supper helped immeasurably and she would always chew coffee or gargle cologne to disguise the smell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  "I was always so glad dear Papa didn't chew," began Pitty, and Melanie, her frown creasing deeper, swung on her and spoke sharper words than Scarlett had ever heard her speak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Something, someone has made you realize that the unfortunate Mr. Wilkes is too large a mouthful of Dead Sea fruit for even you to chew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
5  I'd as soon desire to have it proved that my mother could drink brandy, chew tobacco, and swear, by way of satisfying me that I did right in doing the same.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
7  The Colonel used to say: Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give them a stoppage.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
8  Not being able to smoke, he cut himself a good-sized plug of tobacco and began to chew.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  Those who, as yet, had no horses sat on the curb in front of Bullard's store and watched their mounted comrades, chewed tobacco and told yarns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  They were silent for a while and Will chewed his tobacco like a placid ruminant animal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  "But your heart warn't broken," Will said calmly and, picking up a straw from the bottom of the wagon, he put it in his mouth and chewed slowly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  She could not remember any fascinatingly wicked hero of fiction who chewed tobacco.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  She remembered that he was the sort of person who chewed tobacco.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  She recalled a hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco, the evening when she had tried to read poetry to him; matters which had seemed to vanish with no trace or sequence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  This meat is difficult to chew.
2  To "have bitten off more than you can chew" is an idiom that means you have tried to do something which is too difficult for you.
3  Tom likes to have some difficult matter to chew on.
4  John couldn't get the guy to cooperate and so I had to call and chew him out.
5  Bite off more than one can chew.
6  After the operation you may find it difficult to chew and swallow.
7  I'll chew it over for a few days and let you know my opinion.
8  You must chew your food well before you swallow it.
9  Many people like to chew mint gum in the summer.
10  Don't get chewed up about the new law;it won't affect you.
11  Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
12  They have chewed away two hours.
13  One owner left his pet under the stairs where the animal chewed through electric cables.
14  He chewed on his bottom lip as he considered the question.
15  As a pup he chewed through at least one large rawhide a day.