Sentence examples for the chug from inspiring English sources

Again they listened for the chug of the car's unreliable engine but it did not come.

At around 3pm the chug of engines fills the air and ships line up on the horizon.

But the chug of my neighbor's generator still nags at me because it's a reminder of how poorly prepared I am for an extended shutdown this winter.

His nickname comes from a dance that he executes by pouring a pocketful of sand on a board and scratching out the chug of a train in motion.

Getting there is half the fun; speeding through the countryside to the chug of the vintage train's steam engines, with smoke drifting past the windows.

The chug into Blackpool is as bizarre as Funland, the darkly hilarious telly drama set among its mauve nylon sheets and tawdry B&Bs.

And the chug-chug of the train and eternal wilderness.

Beyond us, trees coming into leaf descend to the bank of the lagoon, and the chug-chug of vaporetti is just audible.

That was when the saxophonist Joe Lovano lumbered around the drum kit, grabbed a pair of sticks and took over, without breaking the chug-a-lug on a ride cymbal.

And then, as the chug-a-chug of the churning water combines with the guitar, recorder and keyboard strains of the multitude of outdoor performers, take a sip of something cold, enjoy a momentary breeze and you'll forget that Baltimore in the summer can sometimes be too darn hot and humid.

My boyfriend had returned to his parents' nest to deal with the bad news, and every weekend I would visit him, the chug-chug of the train carrying me from the city into a territory of anxious conversation and too-tight hugs.