Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: chewed
IPA transcription: [tʃ'ud]
Usage examples
  • 'Why, now, when the huskies have chewed all you own but your instruments?
  • While strolling about he reached often for twigs of mesquite and chewed the leaves fiercely.
  • As the flap of the blue jacket fell away from the body, he could see that the side looked as if it had been chewed by wolves.
  • Lieutenant Sandridge turned a beautiful /couleur de rose/ through his ordinary strawberry complexion, tucked the letter in his hip pocket, and chewed off the ends of his gamboge moustache.
  • Icicles from burst water-pipes hung along the skirt of his brown dog-skin overcoat; his plush cap, which he never took off in the house, was a pulp of ice and coal-dust; his red hands were cracked to rawness; he chewed the stub of a cigar.
  • Guess you've had enough of catamounts for one spell, hey?" and Abner laughed as he looked at poor Corny, who was a more sorry spectacle than he knew,--ragged and rough, hatless and shoeless, his face red and swelled with the poisoning and bites, his eyes heavy with weariness, and in his mouth a bit of wild-cherry bark which he chewed ravenously.