Chunk

Examples

• Hit him with a chunk of wood, Maria. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• When this was gone, the only thing I had left was a chunk of crude opium, perhaps two or three pounds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These chunks are then run through grinding machines, which reduce the chicle to a coarse meal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When information is purveyed in chunks simply as information to be retained for its own sake, it tends to stratify over vital experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The natives of South America soon discovered that the white man was willing to pay them beads and other trinkets for chunks of this rubber, so they became active in gathering it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The path led straight up a rugged sweep of loose chunks of pumice-stone, and for about every two steps forward we took, we slid back one. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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