CHAFF in a Sentence

Learn CHAFF from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for CHAFF, such as:

1. There is no wheat without chaff.
2. An old bird is not to be caught with chaff.
3. When you separate the wheat from the chaff, be sure you keep the wheat.
4. For days at a time the animals had nothing to eat but chaff and mangels.
5. We have to sift through the application forms very carefully to separate the wheat from the chaff.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHAFF
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chaff
 n.  trivial or worthless matter; thin dry bracts or scales, especially
Classic Sentence:
1  For from the Chautauqua itself she got nothing but wind and chaff and heavy laughter, the laughter of yokels at old jokes, a mirthless and primitive sound like the cries of beasts on a farm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  Haley, notwithstanding that he was a very old bird, and naturally inclined to be suspicious of chaff, was rather brought up by this view of the case.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  For days at a time the animals had nothing to eat but chaff and mangels.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  As the major expressed it, the smile had often been struck from his mouth, as if by some invisible hand, when he has been joining the gayeties and chaff of the mess-table.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
5  Can't you see it, Raina; our gallant splendid Bulgarians with their swords and eyes flashing, thundering down like an avalanche and scattering the wretched Servian dandies like chaff.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
Example Sentence:
1  We have to sift through the application forms very carefully to separate the wheat from the chaff.
2  When you separate the wheat from the chaff, be sure you keep the wheat.
3  There is no wheat without chaff.
4  An old bird is not to be caught with chaff.