chewed

past tense of chew

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of chewed Her hair, barely brown, hung straight and appeared to be chewed at the ends. — Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026 Earlier this month, intense waves from Hurricane Marie damaged beachfront homes in parts of Southern California and chewed away at beaches. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026 Riley added a 5-yard touchdown run to end a 15-play drive that chewed nearly eight minutes off the clock in the second quarter. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026 And in Handbrake rendering tests, our 4K video clip got chewed through in a mere 87 seconds. — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026 The part that was chewed was the part that goes over your instep, a kind of flap or lip. — Lydia Davis, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026 His clawed and chewed backpack revealed that he, too, could have been critically injured. — Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026 Chunks of concrete were flung into a nesting and migration site important to some endangered species and a fire chewed through around 4 acres of Boca Chica State Park Land south of the Texas launchpad. — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026 That is to say nothing of periodic smaller disasters, such as last year’s Texas floods that engulfed young campers; the Los Angeles wildfires that chewed through entire neighborhoods; and Typhoon Kalmaegi, which walloped Vietnam and the Philippines. — Peter Prengaman, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chewed
Verb
  • On one day in late December, Eden barely ate all day.
    — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • While neither is an effective big league pitcher at this point, those moves ate into the Yankees’ limited rotation depth.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Kikuko, her appetite sluggish, nibbled the bread bit by bit from the edges, all the while furtively watching her father.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Threatened by the lack of water and nibbled by starving livestock, the trees that once formed a dense forest in the Somali region of Ethiopia are in danger, locals say.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • As she becomes consumed with finding out who Morris Burke is, grief gives way to an increasingly obsessive search.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Include the agent or capability ID so finance can trace spend to what consumed it.
    — Alec Scott, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Others munched on popcorn and hot dogs covered with sweet corn relish and corn-bacon jam in anticipation of the game.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • In yet another video, the two sat under a yellow umbrella at McLain’s in Waldo and munched on a guacamole bacon burrito and a pepper jack burrito.
    — Jenna Thompson June 23, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • The international cooperation that Kirchwey and Bernal called for was swallowed within months by the politics of the Cold War, which would end up bringing the world to the brink of annihilation more than once.
    — Richard Kreitner, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2026
  • In what probably should’ve been a tell, when AT&T acquired it in 2018, the telecom swallowed Time Warner whole and there was no trace of the Warner name.
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026

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“Chewed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chewed. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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