Sentence examples for chunking from inspiring English sources

Global responsibilities and "always on" communications leave little room for balance.Charles Handy, the author of several books on the changing nature of work, says that young workers today are increasingly "chunking" their lives, dividing them into discrete bits.

They've hummed away there for years, chunking through millions of database queries each day, occasionally seeing one of their number replaced with a faster model.

Records are an important example of "chunking" data into a single object, and they appear in nearly all modern languages.

That's not because chess masters have great memories (they don't have the same knack when faced with a random arrangement of pieces) but because hours and hours of chess playing have enabled them to do what psychologists call "chunking".

Like many men and women my age, I get around with a couple of arterial stents that keep my heart chunking.

I was chunking a crankbait made from pork rind cured in a special bass attractant I'd got from Milt Friedman — real fragrant stuff, part pure market forces, part liquefied offal.

Instead, a hefty chunk of the increase in consumption in recent decades has been the result of higher housing prices, the rising cost of medical care, more spending on education, and childcare.

"There's a fear among them that this is a zero-sum game; that there's a pre-defined cake and if you start talking about men, you're going to somehow eat a chunk of this cake that's taken them a long time to bake".

Yet nearly all advertising for sanitary products encourages us to hide this chunk of our lives – three thousand days for most women – by preventing leaks that might embarrass us and everyone else; by ensuring we don't, God forbid, smell of menstrual blood; by putting menstruation behind locked doors and safely enclosed in euphemism.

And so Merkel will try to reduce the British aims to digestible chunks which she can then make appear palatable to the rest of Europe.

But who now has the best chance to take a majority of that 18.3% slice of the voters, plus a goodly chunk of Le Pen's 11.5%, if they turn out to vote a second time?