Example Sentences

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In other words, squirrels had been chewing through the lines or otherwise interfering with the seamless delivery of electricity.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2019

“A walk-up song is supposed to exemplify who we are,” said Jewett, who had been chewing on his choices since last summer.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2013

They look as if a large tar-eating animal had been chewing at them from the shoulders, inward toward the center line.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was common, he writes, "to see the very young prying open the mouths of the very old and pulling out food they had been chewing."

From Time Magazine Archive

Horse spit out the grass he had been chewing.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya