How to Use chow in a Sentence

chow

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  • Outside, the dogs chow on seal blubber and settle down in the snow for a nap.
    — Porter Fox, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • There are four dog options -- basic, all-beef, Polish or Conecuh sausage -- and the chow is the star of the show.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 1 July 2021
  • Pair it up with some chow and celebrate all over again.
    — Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Many fans will be staying home this season to serve their own game-time chow and drinks.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Grains like oats, rice, and seeds make good waterfowl chow for the same reason.
    — Natalie Wallington, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
  • In a video posted online, Memphis the skunk was drawn to the bowl of chow beneath the Eagles logo.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers in the study gave the mice a special high-fat chow, 61% of whose calories come from fat (compared to just 13% in normal feed).
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2012
  • To reduce calories and add protein, try your dog on dry dog chow with bits of chicken or beef.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Sink your teeth into turkey legs and other classic chow, then wash it down with some craft beer.
    — Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The translucent tank holds 24 cups of dry chow and, when running low, sends a notification to your phone.
    — Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 21 July 2021
  • Mthembu doesn’t see his food as a new way of braai-ing, but a new way of serving bunny chows, the Indian South African takeaway dish.
    — Griffin Shea, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Pour the puppy chow onto one of the lined baking sheets, spreading it into a fairly even layer.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
  • My first chow experience was in the kitchen of my mom’s childhood friend in Port of Spain, during one of our many visits from Toronto.
    — Lesley Enston, Bon Appétit, 4 Aug. 2020
  • But in March, when all public activities were canceled to slow the spread of the virus, the operators of these vessels had nowhere to sell their chow.
    — Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Yet the contrary underdog got the puppy chow and money in a 30-29 last second win for the Washington Football Team.
    — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The hotel staff will be serving up hot chocolate, sugar plum cocktails, reindeer chow and hot pretzels.
    — Alison Medley, Chron, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Milwaukee’s foodies are about to get their chow on during the 8th annual Black Restaurant Week.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Humans aren't the only animals who delight in free food; cats love getting chow in exchange for nothing too.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • But make the rodents’ access to rat chow intermittent and add in some super-tasty Oreos along with a dose of stress (in the form of mild foot shocks), and all of a sudden researchers had a group of binge-eating rats.
    — Carrie Arnold, STAT, 25 June 2020
  • For a weary cuckoo chick, a few extra strength-training sessions might make all the difference between booting its fourth and final nest-mate and having to share its chow.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Similarly, popping the finished puppy chow on baking sheets back in the fridge for a few more minutes gives you a prettier snack that’s less sticky on your fingers.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
  • When the ants were healthy, there were more deaths among those given the chemical chow; hydrogen peroxide is generally harmful to ants.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2019
  • Other animals remained on their normal chow, as a control.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned, the global food system accounts for over a third of emissions, and producing all that chow also uses up vast swaths of land.
    — Wired, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Later, four-legged guests enjoyed a meal of puppy chow from Vestals Catering in Dallas (which also caters events for humans), as well as a puppuccino bar and activities including a ball pit.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • That in turn precipitated a fall in populations of rabbits, squirrels and other coyote chow.
    — Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2021
  • So people may feel comfortable buying cricket chow than switching their pet to a completely vegan diet.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Chinese noodles are generally referred to as chow here, because of the popularity of chow mein, and many cafés have at least four cuisines on their menu (usually Chinese, Indian, Italian, and Thai).
    — Nayantara Dutta, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2020
  • From powdered eggs to fresh apples to entire sausages, here’s the chow that keeps us going Outside's long reads email newsletter features our strongest writing, most ambitious reporting, and award-winning storytelling about the outdoors.
    — Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2023
  • But a recent report in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology suggests the reverse can also occur: viruses are microbe chow.
    — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2020
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chow

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  • Soon, your furry friends will be able to chow down on creepy crawlies, too.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Twice as many of the wasp grubs die if their hosts chow down on alcoholic food.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2012
  • But there's another common food your dog shouldn't chow down on: corn on the cob.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 May 2022
  • In Australia, dogs can chow down on pumpkin and mealworm biscuits made by Buggy Bix.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Some guests prefer carrot sticks while others would rather chow down on pita, but all can agree that both would taste great dipped in a silky-smooth hummus.
    — Popular Science, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Some biologists had theorized that hungry wild herbivores would adjust and chow them down.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • In American mukbangs, video creators might chow down on hundreds of dollars of seafood or barbecue — sometimes chewing near microphones to amplify the sound.
    — Samantha Chery, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Sometimes the adherents chow into something relatively conservative—like, say, an uncooked skirt steak—while other times, the cuts for dinner time are far more esoteric.
    — Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Soon, your furry friends will be able to chow down on creepy crawlies, too.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Twice as many of the wasp grubs die if their hosts chow down on alcoholic food.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2012
  • But there's another common food your dog shouldn't chow down on: corn on the cob.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 May 2022
  • In Australia, dogs can chow down on pumpkin and mealworm biscuits made by Buggy Bix.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Some guests prefer carrot sticks while others would rather chow down on pita, but all can agree that both would taste great dipped in a silky-smooth hummus.
    — Popular Science, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Some biologists had theorized that hungry wild herbivores would adjust and chow them down.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • In American mukbangs, video creators might chow down on hundreds of dollars of seafood or barbecue — sometimes chewing near microphones to amplify the sound.
    — Samantha Chery, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Sometimes the adherents chow into something relatively conservative—like, say, an uncooked skirt steak—while other times, the cuts for dinner time are far more esoteric.
    — Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Soon, your furry friends will be able to chow down on creepy crawlies, too.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Twice as many of the wasp grubs die if their hosts chow down on alcoholic food.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2012
  • But there's another common food your dog shouldn't chow down on: corn on the cob.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 May 2022
  • In Australia, dogs can chow down on pumpkin and mealworm biscuits made by Buggy Bix.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Some guests prefer carrot sticks while others would rather chow down on pita, but all can agree that both would taste great dipped in a silky-smooth hummus.
    — Popular Science, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Some biologists had theorized that hungry wild herbivores would adjust and chow them down.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • In American mukbangs, video creators might chow down on hundreds of dollars of seafood or barbecue — sometimes chewing near microphones to amplify the sound.
    — Samantha Chery, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Sometimes the adherents chow into something relatively conservative—like, say, an uncooked skirt steak—while other times, the cuts for dinner time are far more esoteric.
    — Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022

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