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"Chaff" in a Sentence (21 examples)
The boss said this group is a real mixed bag. I wonder if he places me with the wheat or the chaff.
Old birds are not caught with chaff.
That person's so stingy that he won't even let the mouse have the chaff.
You really are the chaff of humanity.
Let's separate the wheat from the chaff.
The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving their minds in useful knowledge. Parents take care to feed their children with wholesome diet; and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the mind, whether they are furnished with salutary food, or with trash, chaff, or poison?
It is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
The chaff must be removed from the good wheat.
Good wheat must be separated from the chaff.
He separated the wheat from the chaff.
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To separate out the chaff, early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.
So take the corn and leave the chaff behind.
In the passage outside the door, the threshers, who had done their day's work, were stamping the snow off their feet before they came in, - their hair full of chaff.
By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it, and time is given for the commencement of digestion, before fermentation can occur. In this way chaff is very useful, especially after long fasts.
the chaff and ruin of the times
Who that has prided himself on his spiritual strength has not seen it humbled to the dust? A knowledge of religion, as distinguished from experience, seems but chaff in such moments of trial.
As for Huxter, perfectly at good-humour with himself, and the world, it never entered his mind that he could be disagreeable to anybody; and the little dispute, or “chaff,” as he styled it, of Vauxhall, was a trifle which he did not in the least regard.
It was the chaff of the College at the time, but I could not help it.
We were talking about it at mess, yesterday, and chaffing Derby Oaks—until he was as mad as a hatter.
I’ve fallen asleep on my step as the ’bus was going on, and almost fallen off. I have often to put up with insolence from vulgar fellows, who think it fun to chaff a cad, as they call it.
Bobby Wick stormed through the tents of his Company, rallying, rebuking, mildly, as is consistent with the Regulations, chaffing the faint-hearted[.]
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