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Example sentences for "chug"

Lexicographically close words:
chuckle; chuckled; chuckles; chuckling; chucks; chugged; chugging; chuir; chul; chulo
  1. For a few seconds the chug-chug came closer, then it died away in the distance on their left.

  2. From out of the darkness they heard the steady chug-chug of an automobile.

  3. Now if you had a problem on your hands like mine----" The soft chug of a motor cut off his ejaculation.

  4. She could hear through her aching brain the chug-chug of Molly's motor following.

  5. A sobbing outburst from Bobbie mingled with the soft chug, chug of the engine outside on the track.

  6. Tommy, Miss Pipkin's black cat, was mincing contentedly at some scraps when the chug-chug of the exhaust shot from the side of the boat.

  7. Before he had finished reading, the chug-chug from the Captain's power-boat floated in from the harbor, and the minister longed to be with him.

  8. The smell of another fire had come across Chug Water on the wind.

  9. In an hour's time his blue chips had been twice reinforced, and twice melted from the neat often-counted pile in which he arranged them; moreover, he had lost a horse from his string down on Chug Water.

  10. The fugitive would keep himself carefully far on the other side of the Laramie, and very likely not cross it until the forks of Chug Water.

  11. They waited till he gained their level, when all four rode up the Chug Water, and went out of sight opposite the watching Cutler.

  12. If it were Toussaint, he would not stay long in the vast exposed plain across Chug Water, but would go on after his meal.

  13. There's Chug Water lying right the other way from where he went, and I guess it's there Mr. Toussaint is aiming for.

  14. From the bay came the quick chug chug of a motor turning up at full speed.

  15. Before long there was the distant chug-chug of an auto heard and as the machine drove away, the sound diminished till it died out.

  16. Sure enough the chug-chug of their escort was drawing near down the rough desert road.

  17. The first, in which was seated Luther Barr, Frank Reade and Hank Higgins, had been waiting just outside the town ever since the boys had heard it chug away before the fire started.

  18. Suddenly the quiet was broken by the sharp chug-chug of an approaching automobile.

  19. A breath of air had sprung up from the river and had brought down with it the distant sound of measured chug-chug of the oars in rowlocks.

  20. Jack stood watching them pull away into the darkness, the regular chug-chug-chug of the oars in the rowlocks sounding fainter and fainter as the dim forms of the boats were lost in the obscurity of the distance.

  21. Just before sunset that afternoon the chug of a motor-boat broke the stillness of the water around the island.

  22. Jerry turned on the gasolene and threw in the spark, and, the next instant the familiar chug-chug of the engine told that the auto was ready to bear the boys and Professor Snodgrass on their way.

  23. Presently on the glad morning air sounded again the chug chug of the motor, bringing them sharply back to their windows.

  24. Pistol in hand, and vigilant to every motion of the negro, my eyes swept along that vague shore line, catching nowhere a spark of light, nor any evidence that the steady chug of our engine had created alarm.

  25. Yet there was scarcely a break in the steady chug of the engine, or the gentle swish of water alongside.

  26. Even before my ears could detect the far-off chug of the engine, the boat itself rounded the sharp point of the headland, and came forth into full view, heading out toward the middle of the river in a search for deeper water.

  27. Again and again I fired blindly into the yelping mob; I heard the crack of Tim's rifle echoing mine, and the chug of lead from without striking the solid logs.

  28. I made my way back to the keel-boat with this information, and the laboring engine began to chug even while I was briefly explaining the situation to Rene.

  29. He changed the carburetor adjustment, and Foster got a weary chug-chug that ceased almost as soon as it had begun.

  30. But Delia leaned on the handle she pushed, and the chug-chug of the great car sent the blood out of her cheeks.

  31. You never see 'em here nowadays, but when I first came here to the Chug there wasn't a week they didn't raid us.

  32. Doesn't it seem odd, after I've been galloping all over this country from here to the Chug for the last three years, that now father won't let me go it alone.

  33. If he could get there in two hours and a half, the cavalry could be up and away in fifteen minutes more, and in that case might reach the Chug at daybreak or soon afterwards.

  34. The only question now is, will he not come or send forward to the Chug to meet me, and could I not be with mother two days earlier that way?

  35. Suppose they should push out westward from the reservation, cross the Platte somewhere about Bull Bend or even nearer Laramie, and come down the Chug from the north.

  36. Now, they know that so long as they cross below Laramie the scouts are almost sure to discover it in an hour or two, and as soon as they strike the Chug Valley some herders come tumbling in here and give the alarm.

  37. Then he knows I've started, and perhaps he'll come on to the Chug or Eagle's Nest and meet me.

  38. Besides, Farron is determined to go ahead as soon as he has had dinner, and--I don't like to think of little Jessie being up there at the Chug just now.

  39. There might be dozens of them off there beyond the Chug at this moment, and I not be able to see hair or hide of 'em.

  40. The men are trying very hard to persuade him not to start for the Chug in the morning.

  41. The Fifth Cavalry had been stationed not far from the Chug Valley when he first came to the country, and afterwards were sent out to Arizona for a five-years' exile.

  42. By the time he was twenty Chug was manager of the garage and his mother was saying, "You're around that garage sixteen hours a day.

  43. The first intelligible sound the boy made was a chesty chug-chug-chug in imitation of a panting engine tugging its freight load up the incline toward the Junction.

  44. No going into detail concerning the effective combination formed by Chug and a machine gun.

  45. Right here it should be understood that Chug never became a Steinmetz or a Wright.

  46. It got so that Stumpy Gans, the one-legged switchman, would hoist a signal to let Mrs. Scaritt know that Chug was safe.

  47. Chug earned his first real bicycle carrying a paper route for the Chippewa Eagle.

  48. That part of it's all right," Chug confided to the Weld girl.

  49. At home Chug was forever rigging up labour-saving devices for his mother.

  50. Even Chug realized that his mother had outdone herself.

  51. When Chug Scaritt first met the Weld girl she was standing out in the middle of the country road at ten-thirty P.

  52. Mrs. Scaritt suspected in a vague sort of way that Chug was "running with the hired girls.

  53. Chug grinned and looked at his own grease-grimed paw.

  54. She was Wanda something-or-other, and anybody but Chug would have been alive to the fact that she had been stalking him for weeks with a stolid persistence.

  55. Chug had merely taken it apart in order to put it together again, and he had been too absorbed to pause long enough to tell his mother so.

  56. Now, one of the motors began to chug briskly below, and the two bow anchors came speedily up, being stowed by the watch.

  57. If it were a motor launch we'd hear the chug-chug of her exhaust.

  58. After a while the chug of motor cars, the click of pool balls, the murmur of low voices all ceased.

  59. She heard the chug of a gasoline engine and the baa-baa of sheep.

  60. The firing was one continuous crash, while plunging bullets, overreaching their mark, began to chug into our own ranks, dealing death impartially to horse and man.

  61. Now we are ready," and the engine started its regular chug chug.

  62. The chug of a motor-boat interrupted them.

  63. Its chug-chug was the only sound for miles around.

  64. Far off she heard the chug of a motor--not the Ford now, but a big touring-car that glistened in the sun.

  65. Once, too, he heard the distant roar of a train as it whirled down the river valley, and once the faint chug chug of a steamboat that passed on the water.

  66. But no sooner had she phrased the thought than she heard the faint chug-chug of an approaching motor.

  67. A faint chug-chug was heard in the distance, gradually coming nearer.

  68. With a chug like the chug of a motor-boat the little closed car came splashing laboriously round the driveway.

  69. He liked to hear the squeak of the belting and the steady chug-chug of the water-wheels; the purr of the dynamos was music, and he kept the commutators free from dust with loving care.

  70. He clutched at bushes, rocks, anything to pull himself up and the pounding of his heart sounded to him like the chug of a steamboat, before he reached the top.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chug" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    booze; lush; souse; swig; swill