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Example sentences for: gumming

How can you use “gumming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The only difference would be that this time, it's the forces of reform that might well harness the traditional mechanisms for gumming up the works.
It all seems unpleasant and slightly absurd--the night guard is "an excellent form of birth control," as one wearer puts it--but the alternative is losing your teeth at 40, getting dentures, and gumming your food.
An appointed second chamber would have less legitimacy, therefore less power, therefore less likelihood of gumming up the works.