chewing tobacco
Example Sentences
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On an ordinary day, the gridlocked streets emit a mix of noisy, vibrant sights and sounds - vendors chewing tobacco, cows curled against doorways and shops doing brisk business as motorcycles zigzag through the crowd.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2022
The virus can spread when people feed deer in their backyard, through sewage discharges or maybe when an animal licks a splotch of chewing tobacco left behind by an infected hunter.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021
One New York state health department report from 1888 says that sugar, licorice, molasses, and glycerin were added to smoking and chewing tobacco in hopes of improving the taste.
From Slate • May 14, 2021
Mail Pouch barns, painted with 1920s ads for chewing tobacco, still span the Ohio Valley.
From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2019
A third cousin of Papa’s, Hopewell Stump, from out in Banks County, clerked and took care of the chickens that folks brought to trade out for nails, flour, sugar, coal oil, coffee, and chewing tobacco.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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