chucks

present tense third-person singular of chuck

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of chucks Chalamet crawls out of the weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird chamber and chucks the helmet to the ground, displaying his now shaven head. Marci Robin, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chucks
Verb
  • Non-reusable textiles (otherwise known as NRTs) are of particular interest, underscored by ACT UK’s report that the region discards 740,000 metric tons of NRT every year.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Marysol and Alexia take Julia, Lisa, and an unusually dour Adriana, who is moping about her birthday and how society discards women of a certain age.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Traditional bulb spacing leaves gaps in the garden while the plants slowly grow in, bloom, and then decline.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This leaves a big hole in the Sabres’ lineup.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Both of the scores came on wide open throws to big-bodied pass-catchers, fullback Hunter Luepke and tight end Jake Ferguson.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Denegal was on target for the second straight game, completing 14 of 17 passes against Nevada a week after hitting on 13 of 16 throws against Colorado State.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Brad Pitt is a klutzy errand boy for the mob sent to Mexico to retrieve a priceless pistol with a magical backstory; Julia Roberts is his long-suffering girlfriend who angrily dumps him upon hearing the news.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But then that tree dumps a huge load of leaves onto your property.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Only this time around, a new project is driving much of the drama, and several council members are calling it quits.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
  • However, after dating for a year and a half, Cline and Stokes decided to call it quits, though their professional relationship remained air tight.
    Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When the Linguina Monograno all’Astice arrives, there are oohs and aahs as a waiter tosses the pasta in front of guests and finishes with a sprinkling of zest from a cedro, a large Italian citrus.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The second of those four TD tosses was the 250th of Mahomes’ career, and no quarterback in NFL history had reached that milestone in fewer games.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Dion, with her blond bombshell waves, ditches her microphone for the glass potion bottle, holding it firmly to the sky.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Dual Front mode Rainbow Six Siege ditches turn-taking to let players attack and defend simultaneously.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The collision hurls Keevik toward me, nearly tossing me into the water.
    Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Jupiter’s gravitational pull also hurls enormous rocks around within the asteroid belt.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Chucks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chucks. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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