chivy
Example Sentences
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His aim: to chivy West Germany and Japan into expanding their domestic economies, while counting on the U.S. currency's drop in value to start reversing the ugly trade figures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile Nazis continued locally to close down religious schools and chivy the clergy.
From Time Magazine Archive
To chivy itself into this ideal situation, the S.T.L. moon orbiter will have two engines�one firing forward and the other backward.
From Time Magazine Archive
He continued to chivy the sausage, his face deep in his book, as the front door let out a loud wha-pop!
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
I let the first class off easily, but the second I chivy through a whole year.
From The Wife, and other stories by Garnett, Constance
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
