How to Use chum in a Sentence

chum

noun

• Drop it right on the perimeter of the chum slices, and be ready.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 4 June 2020
• Ryan would be like chum in the water for the pass rushers.
  — Dallas News, 5 Dec. 2022
• Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick.
  — Brian Skerry, National Geographic, 31 July 2020
• There was no chum or blood in the water and the sharks were unprovoked.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 27 June 2023
• Blood was in the water now, and the amuse-bouche had somehow become chum.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
• Noel Fielding and new chum Matt Lucas are very much overused, to my taste.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
• Liza Minnelli Stars in Cabaret Life is a cabaret, old chum!
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2023
• Republicans smell blood in the water, and Democrats are the chum.
  — Carolyn Fiddler, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2022
• Truly the chum will be in the water starting in September and the sharks are circling.
  — Bruce Goldfarb, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• The play’s three authors, once drama school chums, have given themselves the best roles.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• The whale’s floating body also forms a chum slick on the surface—a trail of blood, oil, and chunks of fat and flesh that might stretch for miles across the water.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2021
• Poor runs of chum and coho salmon to Norton Sound resulted in the worst catches since the record lows of the early 2000s.
  — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2021
• The problem starts with fishermen who wade out and are using chum near shore.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• With less chum around, Zeiser says the eagles will have a harder time catching fish.
  — Jenna Kunze, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
• Life is a cabaret, old chum, and Stumptown Stages is bringing it to the Winningstad Theatre this winter.
  — oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023
• Even so, with some lobbying by a chum in the apparat, he was invited to join up.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• Meanwhile, thousands of chinook and chum are caught every season in the Bering Sea and Area M fisheries.
  — Liz Ruskin, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2023
• The North American waters are home to five kinds of salmon—chinook or king, chum, coho, pink and sockeye.
  — Noma Nazish, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• This will affect more than 2,500 households in the region that rely on chum to feed their families.
  — Victoria Petersen, Wired, 30 July 2022
• The Cowichan was the perfect habitat for chinook, chum and coho salmon, which could gorge on insects and swim in cool water shaded by trees.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Five kinds of salmon can be found in the rivers and streams of Alaska: sockeye (also called red), pink (aka humpy), king (or chinook), coho (silver) and chum (dog).
  — Bailey Berg, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2021
• David Kirke’s old chums found the peaceful circumstances of his death last month — in bed, at age 78 — paradoxical.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• This election won’t be decided by the latest cable news chum.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• But Gallinari was not exactly swimming through a shark tank with chum attached to his feet.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• My childhood chum, now a high school junior, presses her forefinger against pursed lips.
  — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• The study looked at 12.5 million size and age measurements from chinook, coho, chum and sockeye, four of the five species of salmon that return to spawn in freshwater.
  — Hal Bernton, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
• But unlike the two sequels that came later, this follow-up wasn't absolute chum.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• The classic sitcom about six chums tryin' to make it in the Big Apple is available in its entirety on Max for all of your binging purposes.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2023
• The Stand by Me filmmaker and his subject, the auteur behind Lost in America, were high school classmates and have been lifelong chums.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2023
• Chum counts took a nosedive in 2021, and this year’s count is the second-lowest on record; as a result, state and federal fishery managers have closed chum fishing on the Yukon.
  — Victoria Petersen, Wired, 30 July 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024