October 24, 2011 - Word of the Day: chew

Use your back teeth (incisors and molars) to chew food. This is in contrast to the use of your front teeth which are used to bite food.

• Some teachers don't let students chew gum in class.
• Do you like to chew gum?
• I can't chew on my right side because I have a toothache there.
• The dog chewed on the leg of the couch.
• Many baseball players like to chew tobacco. (Yuck!)
• Chewing food is a very pleasurable sensation. (This sentence uses "chew" as a gerund.)

Add the letter "y" to form the adjective, chewy:

• This candy is sticky and chewy.
• I can't eat chewy and sticky candy because I've had a lot of dental work.
• The meat in this beef stew is kind of tough and chewy.

The adjective can also be made with an "ing" ending:

• Do you have any chewing gum?

Use your back teeth to chew your food.

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