How to Use chow in a Sentence

chow

1 of 2 noun
  • 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
  • His mix is Chi, pit, chow, poodle and a few other things.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Outside, the dogs chow on seal blubber and settle down in the snow for a nap.
    — Porter Fox, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Grains like oats, rice, and seeds make good waterfowl chow for the same reason.
    — Natalie Wallington, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
  • Chow chows have a low drive to please, requiring patience in training.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Finish it off by serving with a slice of cornbread, chow-chow, and maybe even potatoes.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Serve with cornbread and chow-chow for the full experience.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Serve with cornbread and chow-chow for the full experience.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The hotel staff will be serving up hot chocolate, sugar plum cocktails, reindeer chow and hot pretzels.
    — Alison Medley, Chron, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Camp Pendleton has 12 chow halls — this one is the first of its kind at the base and on the West Coast.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The wolves are fed a diet of beef, horse, and deer meat as well as liver and other offal, along with puppy chow to provide vital nutrients.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The biggest change is that the prickly, talky humor and depth have been sanded down into mild, featherweight Netflix chow.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • 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
  • The other group ate regular mouse chow (RC), which is low-fat and has a wide range of plant fiber, much like the Mediterranean diet.
    — Michael Franco may 11, New Atlas, 11 May 2025
  • 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
  • Grab a slice at Ava Pizzeria, or chow on savory chicken and shrimp dumplings from The Dumpling Lady.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 16 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • So people may feel comfortable buying cricket chow than switching their pet to a completely vegan diet.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Chow Public Market & Eatery already faces a conspicuous lack of chow.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

chow

2 of 2 verb
  • 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
  • The kibble is also extra-large and easy to eat, so your big guy can chow down at mealtime.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 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
  • In Australia, dogs can chow down on pumpkin and mealworm biscuits made by Buggy Bix.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Some biologists had theorized that hungry wild herbivores would adjust and chow them down.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
  • In two scenes, characters chow down on carrots when plenty of other vegetables are available, and in two other scenes, women randomly slice lemons for seemingly no purpose.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Soon, locals in Huntersville can chow on authentic Baja-style Mexican cuisine and wash it all down with a gargantuan margarita.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • When their suitors don’t somersault, females don’t chow down—which makes some nutritional sense, considering that males in the two species where these acrobatics occur, redbacks and brown widows, weigh just 1 to 2 percent of what their mates do.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022

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