chivy
Example Sentences
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When the fighting nears, the crows chivy them to different hiding places.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
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
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
They chivy him, that citizen, hustle him here and there; One elbow looseth his trim tie, one rumpleth his back hair: They greet his queries with a grunt, his grumblings with a stare.
From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss
