CHUCK in a Sentence

Learn CHUCK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

22 example sentences for CHUCK, such as:

1. I want to chuck every stitch I own.
2. Let's chuck all these old papers away.
3. Tania chucked her bag down on the sofa.
4. I have a great mind to chuck the whole thing up.
5. Oh, chuck them over the bannisters into the hall.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHUCK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chuck
 v.  toss or throw smartly out of the hand; make noise or call, as a hen calls her chickens
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  I have a great mind to chuck the whole thing up.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
2  Oh, chuck them over the bannisters into the hall.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
3  It's easy to say chuck it; but I haven't the nerve.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
4  The wolves chuck the captured shoes out into the hall.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  I want to chuck every stitch I own.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  The charwoman was always in a hurry, and anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in there.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In III
7  Well, after all, old gentlemen were better than no gentlemen at all, thought Scarlett, measuring out the tatting and submitting demurely to being chucked under the chin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  She paused, and then, bending forward, with a lowered voice: "You know we all went on to Nice last night when the Duchess chucked us."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
9  The child came up, and the master patted the curly head, and chucked him under the chin.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  I chucked up my job at Butterley because I thought I was a weed, clerking there: and I got on as overhead blacksmith at Tevershall: shoeing horses mostly.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
12  He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a cup of tea.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
13  The conductor, forgetting the proverb, would have chucked me out on account of my attire; but thereupon I began expressing my feelings in elevated language, and.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 9
14  If I hadn't backed myself to do it I should have chucked the whole thing up two months ago.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
15  "I am chucking it away because I must go, if you'll have the goodness to call a cab for me," Lily returned with a smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
Example Sentence:
1  Let's chuck all these old papers away.
2  Many companies have struggled valiantly to use less energy and chuck out less rubbish.
3  Tania chucked her bag down on the sofa.
4  I got chucked out of the exam for cribbing from the guy in front.
5  He screwed the paper small and chucked it in the bin.