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Example sentences for "chunks"

Lexicographically close words:
chunam; chune; chunes; chung; chunk; chupatties; church; churche; churched; churches
  1. They vary in size from chunks as big as a walnut to those as big or bigger than your fist.

  2. The coral fungi that I eat look like chunks of pinkish or cream white organ pipe coral.

  3. They had left their camp-fires burning, and their chunks of meat and cakes of rough grain cooking under the supervision of slaves and followers when they came out against the Lancers.

  4. There were salvoes of two or three guns, and huge chunks were knocked out of the wall.

  5. Once again those brigades, which had been sorely tried, had to crouch under a fury of fire, until the living were surrounded by dead, half buried or carved up into chunks of flesh in the chaos of broken trenches.

  6. Many horses were killed by flying chunks of steel.

  7. Something broke in one's heart to see them, those splendid boys whose bodies might soon be torn to tatters by chunks of steel.

  8. Shells had already broken the roofs and turrets of the chateau and torn away great chunks of wall.

  9. They scowled as if resentful of our presence, and when we were driving away some hoodlums of the town threw chunks of mud and stone after our carriage.

  10. The bread dealers, we noticed, sold bread by weight, and added or cut off chunks and slices in order to give the exact weight wanted by customers.

  11. This glacier, snow covered on top, showed a thirty foot wall of green ice on the upright edge, and chunks of this ice were constantly breaking off and floating away in the green water.

  12. Look at the chunks of ice floating around in it--and here it is August, and flowers growing on the bank!

  13. Now, chunks of the runway were breaking loose from the dangling ropes, which no longer bore their proportionate shares of the weight.

  14. Biff saw that the stairway was blocked by broken chunks from the floor, but he eased away on the chance that a poisonous snake might be lurking in the rubble.

  15. My mind dwelt upon an imaginary tin of pineapple chunks somewhere in the distance!

  16. A suspicious swelling elsewhere on my person indicated a tin of pineapple chunks (a delight of my youth).

  17. The gold mine was there, though, with chunks of solid gold lyin' around as big as peach baskets.

  18. It near blinded him the first squint he got of them big chunks of gold.

  19. De debil chunks a rock an' hit goes up an' stays fer three days.

  20. De young marster sorta wanted my mammy, but she tells him no, so he chunks a lightwood knot an' hits her on de haid wid it.

  21. And so many go looking and looking for great big chunks of it all--all--whatever they do to it.

  22. He filled the wood-box, piled great chunks of wood by the fireplace, and saw that the water-pails were full to the icy brims.

  23. For these experiments there was nothing more convenient or abundant than chunks of gold from the Martians' mine.

  24. Manifestly it would be quite easy to impart such a speed as that to the chunks of gold that we held in our hands.

  25. And each one tried to carry the biggest load of wood to show how strong he was, and pretty soon they had the lower room of the Hollow Tree piled up high with the finest chunks and kindling pieces to be found anywhere.

  26. In the spring McCloud and I went to Sacramento and sold our chunks of gold (it was all very coarse) to Page, Bacon & Co.

  27. I remember well how the hind hoofs of the orderly's galloper threw away great chunks of earth as he splashed diagonally across the open.

  28. The whole inside of the tree below me, borne down by my weight, had fallen in chunks and dust.

  29. The ice stands up alongside the river, hundreds of feet high, and it breaks off in chunks as big as a New York office-building.

  30. Down through the openings beneath her feet she saw, as in a nightmare, the sweeping flood, burdened with plunging ice chunks and flecked with foam.

  31. As he threw the last chunks of raw horse meat to the huskies, he eyed it forlornly.

  32. Sandy broke out a thermos of steaming coffee and sandwiches, and Charley threw the huskies some chunks of lean dry meat.

  33. Lad struck out for him, butting aside the impending ice-chunks with his great shoulders, and swimming with a rush that lifted a third of his tawny body out of water.

  34. Down went Lad with a crash, and up he came, in almost no time, a few feet away from where Wolf floundered helplessly among the chunks of drifting ice.

  35. There were piles and piles of tailings where we toiled with pick and pan, And turning round a bend I heard a roar, And there a giant gold-ship of the very newest plan Was tearing chunks of pay-dirt from the shore.

  36. These chunks rattled together as his legs flew around, and every little while they fell clattering to the floor and were slipped upon by the other dancers.

  37. Daylight cut up generous chunks of bacon and dropped them in the pot of bubbling beans.

  38. Here a halt of half an hour was made, while chunks of frozen boiled beans were thawed and the dogs were given an extra ration of fish.

  39. Daylight, between mouthfuls, fed chunks of ice into the tin pot, where it thawed into water.

  40. Daylight, with the ax, chopped chunks off the frozen sausage of beans.

  41. He found more and more little chunks of clay, while the hollow place in the centre of the mound proved to be a square, small depression that must have been made with human hands.

  42. He could think of no connection between these chunks of earth and the fire, yet something made him scrutinize them closely.

  43. His fingers encountered many rough chunks of earth, partly hardened by fire.

  44. The rain, the frost, and the cold of winter would naturally have broken those chunks down into loose soil.

  45. However, after the Pony Riders had tossed small chunks of cooked bear meat to them, the animals, by wagging their tails, showed that nothing need be feared from them.

  46. This," answered the lad, laying on the Professor's table the chunks of mineral that he had picked up.

  47. The stone under which it had been placed was there right enough, as were several chunks of hard tack.

  48. Harbert, with a long pair of tongs, as musical as those that Shakespeare wrote about, put the noses of the chunks together, and carefully placed a fat pine knot in the center.

  49. They ain't no chunks thar,' sez Ole Man Know-all.

  50. Yesterday I overhauled the medicine-chest, and I dosed my chunks of fat pork and bread with the contents of every bottle that bore a label of skull and cross-bones.

  51. I began experimentally by tossing small chunks of fat pork and crusts of stale bread overside.

  52. The horse shied at the chunks of ore rolling almost to its feet, and Weston looked up.

  53. In the shelter of its gloom the latter removed his goggles; and, stumbling along over the chunks of ore lying beside the narrow track, he reached the end of the short tunnel which had been blasted from the solid rock.

  54. The draft in front was open, and the blazing chunks within sent a cheerful glow dancing past the window and flickering on the bunk and the side wall beyond.

  55. An hour later, having talked over the situation with Ross thoroughly, explained the amount of work necessary to be done in the tunnel, and given Weimer large chunks of advice, Steele rode away, driving his packhorses in front of him.

  56. He found the path to the pile of pine chunks partly broken; but, with his numb fingers incased in huge mittens, it was not easy work to dig out the wood frozen under its covering of snow.

  57. The pine chunks in the sheet-iron stove cracked and snapped cheerfully.

  58. One of them had seen six UFO's hover over his patrol boat and spew out chunks of odd metal.

  59. The harbor patrolman went on to tell how he scooped up several chunks of the metal from the beach and boarded the patrol boat.


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