How to Use chew over in a Sentence

chew over

verb
  • That’s been chewed over many times.
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The judge also chewed over that argument as well.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Drama, that decision to chew over, and now a full-on dynasty, no?
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Drivers get literal hours to stare at the bumper sticker on the car ahead and chew over their lives.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In the meantime, the current crop of data will continue to give astronomers lots to chew over.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020
  • There will certainly be plenty of plot developments to chew over.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The outlines of the Disney-DeSantis fight have been well chewed over at this point.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • But there is more to chew over in Immortality than the ethics of onscreen violence.
    — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 30 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In this wholly original, self-aware cinematic work, a filmmaker chews over what might have been and playfully probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Part of me eases into its flagship restaurant’s face-value pleasures, yet another part keeps my eyes on the exit sign, chewing over the context in which the restaurant exists in the larger world.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 20 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
  • Congress is chewing over a proposal to create a federal framework for AI regulation.
    — Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 4 June 2026
  • There’s plenty to chew over, from sky-high valuations and capital expenditures to circular business models and mouth-watering salaries.
    — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Mothers still make convenient villains, especially in an era when every child-rearing decision can be chewed over, debated, Instagrammed and quote tweeted.
    — Mark Harris Keita Morimoto, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The Democratic strategists who have chewed over their party’s unpopularity in memo after memo since last November pine for an authentic tribune of the working class.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Then again, given that Diamond is looking to re-sign a number of its MLB partners at steep discounts, that particular slice of the revenue pie has already been pretty well chewed over.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • European officials have chewed over how to nurture startups that might, one day, offer the kind of rapid, inexpensive communications alternatives that Starlink did in Ukraine.
    — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Wall Street is chewing over critical data released last week on Amgen’s experimental weight loss injection – a potential competitor in the blockbuster obesity drug market.
    — Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
  • 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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