chum

Example Sentences

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"The next morning, it was clear that Maxwell had conferred with her royal chum because she told me: 'You did well. The prince had fun.'"

From BBC

A week before Christmas in 1956 she was invited to visit an old school chum’s family farm in Kenya.

From Los Angeles Times

The waters have been chummed and the sharks are beginning to circle.

From Salon

In a surreal moment, the two men were laughing and chumming it up like old friends.

From Salon

Matlin and Stern, who is also a Deaf actor, have been friends for decades, and their interviews are mostly conducted sitting together on a couch, the conversations exuding the cozy intimacy of old chums chatting.

From Los Angeles Times