How to Use chew over in a Sentence

chew over

verb
  • Throw in all the filler, and the viewers were left to chew over around 50 minutes of discussion on the issues.
    Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In the meantime, the current crop of data will continue to give astronomers lots to chew over.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
  • No piece of culture has given me more to chew over this week than Esquire's profile of Michael Kenneth Williams.
    Brandon Tensley and Leah Asmelash, CNN, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Van Drew matchup, but these two candidates have offered voters much more to chew over than simply who is red or blue.
    Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2020
  • But there is more to chew over in Immortality than the ethics of onscreen violence.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The big talker: What could be cozier than a sit-down with the Bank of England’s chief economist to chew over the cost-of-living crisis and sticky inflation?
    Andrew Davis, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • In the low-income Kondele district, young men clustered in groups on streets glittering with broken glass to chew over Mr. Odinga’s speech.
    Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Investors have had a long weekend to chew over the details of the report and will likely skip the typical gut-reaction to headline numbers.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The Grannick Bitter Apple Spray is highly rated by several shoppers for instantly repelling dogs and cats, and will teach them what's not okay to chew over time.
    Carly Kulzer, PEOPLE.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The legal issues behind the decision to kick off construction are sure to be chewed over during the board’s executive session.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The entrepreneur watched the internet chew over a tranche of his personal text messages with major figures in Silicon Valley last week.
    WIRED, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In scenes driven mostly by talk and those emails, Rooney’s characters chew over the ubiquity and ethics of pornography, the thriving industry of public contrition and forgiveness, the framework of victims and oppressors in identity politics.
    New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021

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