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chunk
1[ chuhngk ]
noun
- a thick mass or lump of anything:
a chunk of bread;
a chunk of firewood.
- Informal. a thick-set and strong person.
- a strong and stoutly built horse or other animal.
- a substantial amount of something:
Rent is a real chunk out of my pay.
verb (used with object)
- to cut, break, or form into chunks:
Chunk that wedge of cheese and put the pieces on a plate.
- to remove a chunk or chunks from (often followed by out ):
Storms have chunked out the road.
verb (used without object)
- to form, give off, or disintegrate into chunks:
My tires have started to chunk.
chunk
2[ chuhngk ]
verb (used with object)
- to toss or throw; chuck:
chunking pebbles at the barn door.
- to make or rekindle (a fire) by adding wood, coal, etc., or by stoking (sometimes followed by up ).
chunk
/ tʃʌŋk /
noun
- a thick solid piece, as of meat, wood, etc
- a considerable amount
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Example Sentences
Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.
They gave us three laptops (to run our light show) and a nice chunk of cash.
According to Travolta, quite a good chunk of the dance routine was conceived on the spot.
Most scientists who study the Moon think it formed when a huge impact in the early Solar System broke a chunk of Earth off.
Reynolds spent $1.5 million on an anti-smoking campaign, a large chunk of his wealth.
It's a big chunk of money, and a little thing like killing a man or two won't trouble them.
She was working on a chunk of marble and she had the forehead and general scalp contours almost completed.
And it makes a huge chunk of a very different style and quality between Chapters II.
Davis, because a man of family and more conservative, insisted it would be a “pretty tough chunk of a fight.”
Then one o' the Lieutenant's men jerked the chunk o' cheese away and283 broke it open.
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