chewing gum
a sweetened and flavored preparation for chewing, usually made of chicle.
Origin of chewing gum
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How to use chewing gum in a sentence
Perhaps they might find surprising insights into how cats communicate or into the bacteriomes of discarded wads of chewing gum from different parts of the world.
Sex can relieve nasal congestion, and other work honored by 2021 Ig Nobels | Jennifer Ouellette | September 9, 2021 | Ars TechnicaIn July, Philip Morris International snapped up the Danish firm Fertin Pharma, which makes medicinal chewing gum.
Philip Morris International cigarettes can cause lung disease. Now the company wants to sell medicine to treat it. | Todd Frankel | September 2, 2021 | Washington PostHe parked near us and sat watching and chewing gum or something.
‘The Land of the Permanent Wave’ Is Bud Shrake’s Classic Take on ‘60s Texas | Edwin Shrake | February 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter the boys testified, they were seen exiting the courthouse smiling, chewing gum, and slapping their hands together.
Did Sexpot Schoolteacher Pamela Smart Hire Teens to Kill Her Husband? | Marlow Stern | January 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTurk came up with a design modeled on lozenge-shaped chewing-gum.
Joshua Compston Was Once the Wunderkind of the British Art World…and Now He’s Been Practically Forgotten | Anthony Haden-Guest | January 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
They pushed old ladies off the sidewalks and bought young girls for packs of chewing gum.
I have been frantically chewing gum for two days, pausing only to eat and sleep.
Then rolling chewing-gum from one corner of his mouth into the other, he snapped off the electric light and walked from the room.
Dope | Sax RohmerOne of the town flatfoots came down and stared in, chewing gum methodically.
Rosin-weed has always seemed to me to be a harmless herb, which is shown also by its use among children as chewing gum.
The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick LaidlawThe driver, a lean saturnine man who seemed to be forever chewing gum, began to prepare coffee.
Security | Poul William AndersonIn the North they also have a strange custom, called chewing gum.
As A Chinaman Saw Us | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for chewing gum
a preparation for chewing, usually made of flavoured and sweetened chicle or such substitutes as polyvinyl acetate
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