Sentence examples for chaw from inspiring English sources

Suddenly aware of his body odour, Pepys stepped out to buy a roll of tobacco "to smell to and chaw", hoping its medicinal properties would preserve him in the days ahead.This summer marks 350 years since the Great Plague of London that left nearly 70,000 people in the city dead.

Spit out the chaw so we can do this".

Dykstra was exactly the kind of sports star — a scrapper, in the Pete Rose mold, with a cheek full of chaw — for whom the distinction between heroes and role models was drawn.

Putting a pinch of chaw in his mouth, one of the guys addressed Gonzales, who was still carefully assembling his sandwich.

But the baseball stats — the on-base percentage, wins above replacement, and all those other high-concept figures — are pointless if they simply verify empirically what the old-timers already intuit by chewing on their chaw.

The chaw is gone, and he hasn't had a drink in years.

"Ahhh," Gideon said, extending his chaw-stained tongue.

This reader stumbled on at least three other chaw-swallowing errors, one that out-Felicianoed José.

Chocolate, which geezers recall as CHOCK-a-lit, has become CHAW-klit; its central syllable melted away in our mouths.

And by New Year's 2003, I was eating cake at an aunt's 80th birthday, chawing with family I'd avoided since the end of the previous millennium.

And "Candlesmas" is reminiscent of the Scots lyrics in MacDiarmid's first (and truly revolutionary) collections, Sangs-chaw and Penny Wheep.