How to Use chomp in a Sentence

chomp

verb
  • They were chomping burgers at a picnic.
  • Those who want to chomp on the three items on the menu – Sgt.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2022
  • Cold, clean air bit into our lungs as our skis chomped the snow.
    Ed Kressy, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Two bite marks show a big cat also chomped on the bone at some point.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • The bear chomped his arm and left a wound on the back of his neck and bites on his head.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Drizzles a bit of his glossy orange sauce on one and chomps down.
    Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appetit, 25 June 2018
  • The critters are chomping at the bit.
    Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • There’s no bacteria that sits there and chomp down on the flesh.
    Naseem S. Miller, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • These days, baseball fans are chomping at the bit to get to the park.
    Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2017
  • If the fruit doesn't bother you, by all means, keep chomping on it.
    Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 6 Aug. 2015
  • Cher then picked up the giant tongue and chomped down, much to the delight of the host.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2018
  • No one’s chomping at the bit to acquire Who?
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Along with chomping on burgers, kids ran around in the green grass and adults sipped on beer.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2025
  • How about a wry, cigar-chomping Satan?
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • After chomping down the fruit, the student taped the peel back on to the wall.
    Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • At one point, the camera shows the divers outside as the shark keeps chomping.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Nancy didn’t tolerate it and chomped her teeth down on the thief’s hand.
    Juan Ortega, www.sun-sentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Please, raptors, chomp away and spare us all more time with this character.
    Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 30 June 2025
  • Swim, fly, roll and chomp your way to the open ocean in a bid for freedom and to reunite friends once again.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But the steely-eyed Hogan never played any golf shot while chomping on the stem of a rose.
    Jimmy Burch, star-telegram.com, 19 May 2017
  • Over the weekend off Nantucket, a white shark chomped on a seal.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 13 May 2025
  • In theory, this should be the job that coaches are chomping at the bit for.
    Mike Straw, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • That’d be like me big-lip chomping on some bananas in the cafeteria.
    David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Onlookers gave off excited screams as the great white emerged and chomped on the whale.
    Fox News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • These were wounds left by the cookiecutter sharks that chomped at the fish during the lengthy battle.
    Outdoor Life, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And, yes, those same Gators will be chomping it up again in 2026.
    Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Suitable for extreme chewers, even the strongest jaws can’t chomp through this chew.
    Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Since gar are used to chomping down on bones and scales, the hooks and wire in their mouths won’t bother them in the slightest.
    Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 May 2023
  • Being in the presence of goats, who may pee on our mats or chomp on our hair, was a way to rejoice in the way things are.
    Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2018
  • With stunning quickness, the polar bear chomped on the duck, and then proceeded to eat it.
    Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019

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