Sentence examples for chuck from inspiring English sources

'chuck' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is often used as an informal word for "throw" (e.g. "She chucked the ball across the yard"), or as a term of endearment (e.g. "Hey, chuck!"). Example sentence: "I chucked the book aside when I was done reading it."

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chuck

verb

To make a clucking sound.

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Jones told Turnbull that because he had had dinner with Palmer, a trenchant critic of Abbott, "people" were suggesting that "precisely because you have no hope ever of being the leader again – you have got that into your head, no hope ever – that because of that you are happy to chuck a few bombs around that might blow up Abbott a bit, that is what they are saying".

For Mr Sarkozy to win, he has to simultaneously gain the bulk of the 6.4 million voters who supported Ms Le Pen in the first round, a large chuck of François Bayrou's centrist voters and new voters who abstained in the round.

Which leads me to the conclusion that the reason coalition ministers don't mind slashing entitlements for disabled people, are quite happy to use them as guinea pigs for new benefits that don't work, and to chuck them at incompetents such as Atos, is because they couldn't care less.

Phil will probably wish more of the royalties from this song were his when he has to chuck a load of cash at Stevie Wonder, whose My Cherie Amour is sampled here with an almost heroic lack of creativity.

How can I leave?" Sampdoria coach Sinisa Mihajlovic continued his run of literary allusions in pre-match press conferences, previewing their game against Verona in March with a pledge to "chuck Juliet from her balcony".

One citizens group, A Port Lands Initiative Mumbai Movement (formed by Aam Admi Party leader Meera Sanyal and others), wants to restrict dock activity and chuck out polluting industries like the coal yard.

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Chuck Blazer, a 70-year-old soccer chief, also admitted in the court facilitating the payment of a bribe relating to the 1998 World Cup in France.

Related: Fifa whistleblower Chuck Blazer: I took bribes over 1998 and 2010 World Cups Fikile Mbalula, the sports minister, also admitted he was "shocked" by the resignation of Fifa's president, Sepp Blatter.

Defence secretary Chuck Hagel, who spoke by telephone on Sunday with Turkey's defence minister, Ismet Yilmaz, has said the US wants access to Turkish air bases, including one at Incirlik in southern Turkey.

The panels of the daily Dilbert strip or the Chuck Norris Facts widget flash by too quickly to read.

The long Hollywood lineage of films about the FBI bringing rich, unreachable men to justice has lent a distinct movie-like quality to the crumbling of Sepp Blatter and Fifa, from the dawn arrests of accused high-ups at their five-star Zurich hotel, through the criminal confessions of Chuck Blazer, to the still pinch-yourself moment the president announced his fall.

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