chute
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“There you go,” he said as he retrieved a prize from the chute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Food waste is not separated or recycled, but instead is put down the same chute.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
And that decision has to be made in a heartbeat at the end of a mile-long ice chute covered at speeds exceeding 90 mph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
PITTSBURGH—Lemon, a five-pound Chihuahua, waited at the starting line until her owner signaled “go,” then pulled a wheeled cart weighing 260 pounds down a 16-foot chute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
As I’m about to walk from the elevator to the trash chute room at the other end of the hall, I notice the door to another room.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
A survey where people are cattle chuted to these options: open the square and this, open the square and this, open the square and this.
From Slate ● May 25, 2021
We chuted up and pulled the adjustment straps down good and tight because we knew we were so loaded that we were going to get one hell of an opening shock.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once we were chuted up, we had to stay on our feet because it would be impossible to get back up without help.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, Foreign Legion paratroopers, back in harness after dreary months of bunker building, chuted down into the hills south of Choben.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I—I shot the chute—I—I mean I chuted the shot—I mean—" "Say, what do you mean?"
From The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico Or, the End of the Silver Trail by Frank Gee Patchin
The encircling mountains are a kind of flood-making machine, chuting rain down arroyos and canyons for killer floods, most memorably in 1914, 1934 and 1938.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
A third man will level off the sand and stone in the measuring hopper and help in the chuting.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
When chuting is not practicable it will pay often to shovel the stone into buckets handled by a stiff-leg derrick rather than to unload it onto the bank.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
