Example Sentences

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The back-to-back disasters enabled bark-boring beetles that had been munching on dead trees to jump to drought-weakened ones.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2021

What if she had escaped, while he had been munching caviar and anchovy sandwiches?

From Murder at Bridge by Austin, Anne

They wanted a change of diet as they had been munching buffalo meat three times a day for some time past and the regularity with which it came became monotonous.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis

The shabby student-looking chap and his equally shabby and merry little companion, both Americans, closed the bag of fruit from which they had been munching and sat looking into each other's eyes.

From Cheerful—By Request by Ferber, Edna

While Squinty had been munching on the apple, the boy had dug a hole, put some sweet acorn nuts into it, and covered them up with dirt.

From Squinty the Comical Pig His Many Adventures by Barnum, Richard