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Example sentences for: chew

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For such people, we might say that their very grip on reality depends on their control of language: it is their security blanket, the corners of which they chew with everlasting self-satisfaction and in which they wind themselves for protection against the hostile forces that would shake the foundations of their traditionalism.
The existence of many opposites suggests that proverbs perhaps once came in pairs, to be swopped in a sort of verbal wrestling, one vying with another or sometimes combining with it, the idealistic and the skeptical in balance: The man without children has a hole in his heart; the man with children has a heart like a sieve; Your family may chew you, but they will not swallow you .
You can't--but that doesn't mean that from then on you should close your eyes, hold your nose, and chew a cheap carrot when you feel like having some fruit.
They just chew you up and spit you out.
Gladstone liked to chew everything thirty-two times, so he spent the meal largely in silence.