Examples of chomp in a Sentence

They were chomping burgers at a picnic.

Recent Examples on the Web These tan or gray insects have the power to chomp down prairies and denude trees, causing more crop damage in the U.S. than any other type of grasshopper. — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021 Pac-Man 99 plays like a traditional version of the game, as players chomp down dots while escaping ghosts. — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021 Lymph nodes contain immune system cells that can fight and chomp up from the lymph viruses, bacteria, and other things that don’t belong in your body. — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021 To really stretch our brains past their limits, Bravo sends Meredith and Lisa (and their respective husbands) on a double date to chomp down some burrata while wearing matching outfits. — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2021 At a maximum body size of 50 feet long, this ancient mako relative was the largest shark ever to chomp its way through the seas. — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2020 From teenagers to elderly mah-jong players, the city’s residents chomp furiously to get their fix of the nut’s main stimulant, arecoline. — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020 Other possible solutions include the tiny waxworm, which can chomp through plastic, even polyethylene, a common and non-biodegradable plastic currently clogging up landfills and seas, thanks to its gut bacteria. — Jack Guy, CNN, 29 Sep. 2020 And, even if Sanders does emerge victorious, there are superdelegates chomping at the bit to deny him the nomination, all but certainly teeing up a messier-than-usual showdown on the convention floor in Milwaukee come July. — Brianna Provenzano, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2020

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