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Example sentences for "champed"

Lexicographically close words:
champain; champak; champaka; champan; champans; champeen; champerty; champignons; champing; champion
  1. Having been allowed a previous day of unbroken rest, they were quite impatient of delay, and chafed and champed exceedingly on the bits, by which their impetuosity was restrained.

  2. I felt his hissing hot breath; and the foam that he champed from his fangs, as he tossed his head from side to side in a paroxysm of rage and pain, fell like flakes of hot sulphur over my face.

  3. The great oxen champed and champed their food with a regular sound; I remembered the steerage in a liner, the noise of the sea and the regular screw, for this it exactly resembled.

  4. The roof of the shed was lost up in the great height of darkness; behind, in the darkness, the oxen champed away steadily in the manger.

  5. The bear began to feel for it with its paws, and, catching the shaft, lifted it to its mouth and champed it, thus dragging the steel from its hide.

  6. His eyes rolled; he champed his jaws like an angry hog, and screamed: "Surely the lord Olaf is mad, for no sane man would talk thus.

  7. She champed and churned in a fussy manner, and the great steel crank in her middle began to thud in a terrifying manner.

  8. And as he ran he shook his head violently from side to side and champed more fiercely at his bit.

  9. His jaws worked up and down violently and he champed at the bit.

  10. The black ponies tossed their heads, and champed their bits, gayly, as they made best time over the last mile.

  11. Falcon pricked his ears, and champed his bit cheerily, as he mended his pace without warning of spur.

  12. The battle-scarred war horses snuffed the blood and smoke of battle from afar, and champed their bits in anxious impatience.

  13. That ever champed a bit; and still he said at noon to-day that he had had two, possibly three, glasses of wine, but no more.

  14. Highland Belle, by Homer Wilkes, with a mark of twenty-one, that could out-trot any thing of her age that ever champed a bit.

  15. The body shook and quivered and twisted in wild contortions; the sharp white teeth champed together till the lips were cut and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam.

  16. I kept my eyes fixed on Lucy, as did Van Helsing, and we saw a spasm as of rage flit like a shadow over her face; the sharp teeth champed together.

  17. The horses, tethered to the boughs, champed their bits and pawed impatiently.

  18. I champed the sensations that make Of a ruffled philosophy rags.

  19. Two bouquets of rosemary fell, at that moment, at the feet of the horse that, brought at last under control, champed his bit and pawed the ground with his hoofs.

  20. The horse champed resoundingly at the heavy Mexican bit.

  21. The horse champed resoundingly; her lips parted as if to speak.

  22. The mare champed under the stinging pressure of the curb.

  23. The billows of his chin champed up and down as if he would crack the difficult nut between his ivory grinders.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "champed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.