chaw

Example Sentences

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Innumerable bugs, each one less than half the size of a housefly, but primed to chaw their way through a $16-billion California industry exactly like you did to that bag of chips.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024

Their mouths hung open in wide O’s, here a line of brown chaw drool streaming down a slack cheek, waxy and white in the headlights.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2020

The book, with its cover photograph of Dykstra looking like a jack-o’-lantern with a chaw of tobacco in one cheek, will rank No. 11 on the July 17 New York Times nonfiction best-seller list.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2016

Peterson refused to blame the chaw instead fingering the culprit as bad shrimp.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2015

“You boys are stupid, ain’tcha?” one of them said, his big chaw shifting in his cheeks.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam