chugging
Example Sentences
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So, how well do you know the companies that keep the country chugging?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
U.S. stocks have kept chugging higher this year, but bonds haven’t been able to shake off a five-year slump.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
As Banderas plays him, he’s a bearish marvel of a man with the kind of earthy soul that would have had Ernest Hemingway chugging salty dogs on his barstool all night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Now I can look forward to ruining my sleep schedule, chugging iced Americanos, and screaming at the TV at 3 a.m. for a country I don’t live in while our national team sleeps peacefully.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
The brown cupboard standing with its screen doors open, the baby cot swinging like a pendulum, the Singer sewing machine pedal chugging up and down, pieces of cloth spread out on the tile floor.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
