- chunk
- 01. The soup had big [chunks] of chicken in it, as well as some carrots and celery.02. The demonstrators were picking up [chunks] of cement, and throwing them at the police.03. The lion tore a [chunk] of meat off the dead zebra, and swallowed it whole.04. Sharon cut the melon into large [chunks], and put them in the fruit salad.05. My uncle owns a large [chunk] of land in the middle of this city.06. The old woman was wearing cheap, [chunky] jewelry.07. The chocolate ice cream had big [chunks] of fudge in it.08. Dorothy Parker once said that writer Ernest Hemingway had a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gave away great [chunks] to those about him.09. The child was so hungry that he was biting off huge [chunks] of his sandwich, and almost swallowing them whole.10. A man was killed when a [chunk] of cement from a building fell on him during the earthquake.11. In 1997, boxer Mike Tyson was fined three million dollars for biting a [chunk] out of the ear of his opponent, Evander Holyfield, during a match.12. I found a big [chunk] of pork in my vegetable soup.13. Humans carve the world into meaningful [chunks] called categories in order to make sense of our environment and the objects contained within it.14. Modern language theory suggests that we learn and speak our language in [chunks] of meaning rather than individual words.15. A shooting star results when a small [chunk] of matter burns up as it enters our earth's atmosphere.16. Learning is facilitated when individual items can be [chunked] into meaningful groups.
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.