Sentence example with the word 'chaff'

chaff

afterglow, chicken feed, dump on, fuzz, jeer, odds and ends, ragging, ride, shell, stump, vermin

Definition n. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

Last update: October 31, 2015


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The senior boys chaffed the juniors during ragging.   [Please select]

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He shall gather his wheat into his garner, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.   [Please select]

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"None of your chaff, Richards."   [Please select]

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Depend upon it, General Cromwell will scatter that army like chaff.   [Please select]

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They called him "little falcon" or "Platosha," chaffed him good-naturedly, and sent him on errands.   [Please select]

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Hawthorne's intellect, that now I am acquainted with it, merely thinking of him as I read winnows the chaff from the wheat at once.   [Please select]

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Outwardly they suggest a huge chaff pile, and the scattered grains of wheat hardly warrant the labor of winnowing.   [Please select]

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The Hohenzollerns will scatter them like chaff.   [Please select]

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"Come, now, don't chaff."   [Please select]

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A little chaff will always remain among the wheat.   [Please select]

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It was left to the Stoics to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to assign to the words "knowledge" and "nature" a saner and more comprehensive meaning.   [Please select]

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