GUM in a Sentence

Learn GUM 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.

25 example sentences for GUM, such as:

1. He was reading the newspaper, gum in mouth.
2. The old man smiled to reveal toothless gums.
3. Many people like to chew mint gum in the summer.
4. I invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine.
5. The worried look had gone from her face and her almost toothless gums showed in a wide smile.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gum
 n.  either of the two areas of firm, pink flesh inside the mouth that cover the bones to which the teeth are attached
 n.  a sticky substance obtained from the stems of some trees
 n.  a type of glue used for sticking together pieces of paper
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  Yeh, I'm probably a yahoo, but by gum I do keep my independence by doing odd jobs, and that's more 'n these polite cusses like the clerks in the banks do.'
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  I took up the envelope and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the gum, the letter K three times repeated.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
5  I invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUC...
6  She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones of her face stood out prominently; her breathing was painful to see or hear.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Even the lips were white, and the gums seemed to have shrunken back from the teeth, as we sometimes see in a corpse after a prolonged illness.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  He rubbed the brandy, as on another occasion, on her lips and gums and on her wrists and the palms of her hands.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  Lucy was breathing somewhat stertorously, and her face was at its worst, for the open mouth showed the pale gums.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  Her breathing grew stertorous, the mouth opened, and the pale gums, drawn back, made the teeth look longer and sharper than ever.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  The lower teeth and gums were covered with clotted blood and a minute piece of the tongue seemed to have been bitten off.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
12  And so he would now study perfumes and the secrets of their manufacture, distilling heavily scented oils and burning odorous gums from the East.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
13  Peter's criticism hurt worse than anything Frank or Aunt Pitty or the neighbors had said and it so annoyed her she longed to shake the old darky until his toothless gums clapped together.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  The worried look had gone from her face and her almost toothless gums showed in a wide smile.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
15  'Wise Stubb,' said he, 'wise Stubb;' and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of eating of his own gums like a chimney hag.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab.
Example Sentence:
1  Many people like to chew mint gum in the summer.
2  The main reason people loose all their teeth, become edentate, is tooth decay, not gum disease.
3  He was reading the newspaper, gum in mouth.
4  Some toothpastes are specially made to help keep your gums healthy, as they contain ingredients which fight bacteria.
5  The old man smiled to reveal toothless gums.
6  Meanwhile Armstrong continues to grunt, to growl, to bite into his gums but all to no avail: he's over five minutes behind now.