Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: chewing
IPA transcription: [tʃ'uɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
    Meaning: biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
Usage examples
  • "Chewing isn't tiresome; it's fun," maintained the Woozy.
  • He tried the experiment of chewing some leaves that he knew were harmless.
  • 'She didn't believe me,' murmured Teddy, chewing a wisp of grass meditatively.
  • The oxen stood complacently chewing the cud. Indians never molested British fur-traders.
  • The Labyrinth Spider knows nothing of the diversions of the table; she flings the drained remnants out of her web, without chewing them.
  • "'Jeff,' says Andy after a long time, 'quite unseldom I have seen fit to impugn your molars when you have been chewing the rag with me about your conscientious way of doing business.
  • Some talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were advancing with relentless curses and chewing tobacco with unspeakable valor; tremendous bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping along like the Huns.
  • With my knife I cut off a small portion of the leather trunk, and endeavoured to eat it, but found it utterly impossible to swallow a single morsel, although I fancied that some little alleviation of my suffering was obtained by chewing small pieces of it and spitting them out.
  • The boatman took it very quietly, never deigning to give any explanation, but sitting down in his own particular chair, and chewing tobacco, while he looked at Mary with the most satisfied air imaginable, half triumphantly, as if she were the captive of his bow and spear, and half defyingly, as if daring her to escape.
  • Fortunately, though it was the almost universal custom to use liquors, Horace was a teetotaler, and despised chewing or smoking tobacco, which he regarded "as the vilest, most detestable abuse of his corrupted sensual appetites whereof depraved man is capable;" therefore he had no fear of temptation from these sources.