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How to use chute in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun, verb

Chute means a framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel. Example: “Our stowage disappeared down the chute, into the employee only cargo area, never to be seen again by man.”

Examples of chute by meaning

nounA framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or...

  • On reaching the slip, the barrow was wheeled off the truck onto a scaffolding gantry built out over the wall, and the concrete tipped down a corrugated iron chute on to a steel plate.1959 December, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866

nounA parachute.

  • At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle , but in another moment, it popped.2007, J. Joseph Higgins, The Splat Conspiracy: America in Peril, page 145
  • On the second operation the 1,000 mortar bombs were parachuted into the LZ on 125 chutes; all were on target but two roman candled which sent everyone diving for cover and necessitated the change of some knickers.2019, David Taylor, The First Helicopter Boys

More sentences with chute

  • Our stowage disappeared down the chute, into the employee only cargo area, never to be seen again by man.From the entry stowage
  • At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle, but in another moment, it popped.2007, J. Joseph Higgins, The Splat Conspiracy: America in Peril, page 145. From the entry roman candle
  • The pod chute doors were left open during the flooding and we have diving equipment.2003, Ralles, H.J., Keeper of the realm, page 193. From the entry pod-chute
  • Others with chutes aflame candlesticked into the sea.2013, Rick Atkinson, The Liberation. From the entry candlestick
  • The impact caused the chute to finally deploy.2005, Dan Rodgers, I Thought You Brought the Can Opener. From the entry foof
  • Bottle after bottle vanished down the recycling chute.1996, Scott Russell Sanders, Terrarium, page 79. From the entry chemmie
  • No other Deliverators are waiting in the chute.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN. From the entry 'za
  • But if you are racing a boat without a chute, especially a single-hander, ooching is usually more effective.1977, Yacht Racing, volume 16, Chicago, Ill.: One-Design Yachtsman, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46, column 2. From the entry ooch
  • I've got to pull my 'chute down around me-- fast!1964, "Their Darkest Hour!" (page 12), The Avengers #7, Marvel Comics. From the entry 'chute
  • The drops worked by chaldron wagons being taken up the incline, and their loads dropped down chutes into tenders of steam locomotives waiting below.2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 54. From the entry chaldron
  • This need led to her clever device, the “hug box” which compressed her sides like the cattle chute it was modeled after.2011, Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing, Volume 3, Number 4, October 2011, unnumbered page. From the entry hugbox
  • This hillock was easily accessible and afforded a fast, if brief ride (and often a neckful of snow before a chute was worn).2010, George Davison Winius, The Brats of Briarcliff, page 99. From the entry neckful
  • Powders are introduced through the rear entrance chute and are massed with liquid which enters the extructor from feed ports along the chamber.1976, Leon Lachman, Herbert A. Lieberman, Joseph L. Kanig, The Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy, page 633. From the entry extructor
  • She's in love with a boy from the rodeo who pulls the rope on the chute when they let those suckers go.1975, Frank Zappa, San Ber'dino. From the entry sucker
  • Loaded wagons are propelled on to them and the contents are then quickly discharged through chutes down to the waiting colliers below.1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 273. From the entry staith
  • Any time a player's token lands on the top of a chute, the token must "slide" down to the final square where that chute is pictured (sad trombone).2019 January 31, “Chutes and Ladders: Legislative Bill Edition”, in City Weekly, page 10. From the entry sad trombone
  • One of the paratrooper's 'chutes had roman-candled – failed to open – and he had plunged into the ground only fifty yards from where we were standing.2017, John Goldsmith, Accidental Agent: Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance. From the entry 'chute
  • We decided to make our descent in two parts: a forty-foot rappel to a wide ledge followed by a thirty-foot ropeless scramble through a tight chute.2005, Ken Lamberton, Beyond Desert Walls: Essays from Prison, University of Arizona Press, page 34. From the entry diaper harness
  • Still, while steep chutes and massive cliffdrops may be all but non-existent, there are enough true double black plunges to humble even the finest expert riders.2003, Tam Leach, The Rough Guide to Skiing and Snowboarding in North America, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry cliffdrop
  • Those big fat contact patches complain, squeal a little bit, but they hold on to the patented Fairlanes, Inc. high-traction pavement and guide him into the chute.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN. From the entry 'za
  • To me, growing increasingly Scroogesque, each day is a Winterreise, without the snow, the linden tree, the cold (though a chute or two is pneumonia-drafty) or the weather-vane.1986, Studs Terkel, Chicago, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry Scroogesque
  • In large abattoirs, the triperies and gutteries should preferably be situated under the slaughtering halls and in direct contact with them, by means of a system of chutes.1957, Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Meat Hygiene, Meat hygiene, page 168. From the entry guttery
  • This method is used only in a one-set panel mined from level to level by underhanding into the chute at the foot- wall end of the previous panel.1942, Mining Technology - Volume 6, Issue 1, page 9. From the entry underhand
  • The removal of the peas from the pods is effected in the same way as in the viner, and the peas and pods delivered by chutes.1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Crops, page 170. From the entry podder

Meaning of chute

  1. noun A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
  2. noun A waterfall or rapid.
  3. noun A pen or passageway to constrain the movement of an animal, such as livestock being loaded for transport; the pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.

Full definition of chute

Questions about chute in a sentence

How do you use chute in a sentence?
Chute is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Our stowage disappeared down the chute, into the employee only cargo area, never to be seen again by man.”
What is a short sentence with chute?
“Bottle after bottle vanished down the recycling chute.”
What does chute mean?
Chute means a framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

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