chewing
IPA: tʃˈuɪŋ
noun
- The act by which something is chewed on; mastication.
- (drugs) The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant.
- (drugs) The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek.
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Examples of "chewing" in Sentences
- I like chewing gum.
- The awl is useful for chewing on gum.
- It is the No.3 chewing gum manufacturer in the world.
- Leaves are moistened by chewing and applied to the bite.
- It is also the only to consider the terms as chewing gum.
- The edits appear to inflate the importance of chewing gum.
- I have to say that chewing is less disgusting than smoking.
- Chewing of gum is permissible at the discretion of the classroom teacher.
- Chewing gum replaced tobacco as the favorite chew of the younger generation.
- Cart him off to the wild garrigue* and he will begin chewing on the local herbs (good for the gums, I wonder?).
- Ken Fisher: One point that I've been making recently is that we're in a period that I refer to as chewing the cud.
- We are nearly positive that this afternoon parent/teacher ass-chewing is going to offer us a few solutions to our disruptive kid problem.
- Nabokov somehow leaned across the crease and blindly gloved the puck, leaving the former Sharks captain chewing on his mouthpiece in disbelief.
- After they have recovered, the blackening of the teeth by means of betel chewing is accelerated by means of a black liquid obtained by burning cocoa-nut shells on iron.
- These Blue Dogs are more intetrested in chewing on the bones thrown to them by the Insurance Industry than creating real healthcare reform that will work for all Americans.
- We can imagine no reason why, with ordinary care, human toes could not be left out of chewing tobacco, and if toes are found in chewing tobacco, it seems to us that somebody has been very careless.
- Accepting decedent's extreme level of intoxication and the difficulty that such an intoxicated person would have in chewing and swallowing roast beef, as testified to by plaintiff's medical expert, there is absolutely no proof that such difficulties would be apparent to anyone other than perhaps a medical professional.
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