Chaff is an English word with synonyms like husk or rag. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Chaff in a sentence
Related words
Chaff meaning
- The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
- Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
- Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
Synonyms of Chaff
Using Chaff
- The main meaning on this page is: The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. | Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. | Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
- Useful related words include: husk, rag, razz, tease.
- In the example corpus, chaff often appears in combinations such as: the chaff, chaff and, and chaff.
Context around Chaff
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chaff
- In this selection, "chaff" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cereal, patronising, cartooning, gathering, heaps and piles stand out and add context to how "chaff" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include from the chaff and about patronising chaff about misinformation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chaff" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chaff
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However, chaff only works for so long you can only have so many of them. (15 words)
Re the numbers, I’m not throwing any chaff, I’m simply stating the numbers. (15 words)
In a matter like this, everyone is a suspect until the wheat is separated from the chaff. (17 words)
The cereal chaff heaps were all similar in feed value with about four per cent crude protein, indicating that provision of additional protein, such as lupin grain, would be required for the sheep to make full use of cereal chaff piles. (41 words)
In this verse, Jesus is portrayed as someone who will separate the wheat from the chaff, gathering the wheat into His barn and burning up the chaff in a conflagration. (30 words)
A press statement issued by Deputy Public Relations Officer, P Sharif Sa’ad, accused them of deliberately mixing about 57 bags of rice with chaff. (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
In this verse, Jesus is portrayed as someone who will separate the wheat from the chaff, gathering the wheat into His barn and burning up the chaff in a conflagration.
The cereal chaff heaps were all similar in feed value with about four per cent crude protein, indicating that provision of additional protein, such as lupin grain, would be required for the sheep to make full use of cereal chaff piles.
In a matter like this, everyone is a suspect until the wheat is separated from the chaff.
It definitely separates the wheat from the chaff, but it's likely this savage gameplay that keeps some fans coming back for more.
Please, Sophie Black: don’t insult our intelligence by throwing about patronising chaff about ‘misinformation’, a ‘war on truth’ and ‘fact checking’.
A press statement issued by Deputy Public Relations Officer, P Sharif Sa’ad, accused them of deliberately mixing about 57 bags of rice with chaff.
At first glance, this might seem like a ridiculous way of sorting the wheat from the chaff.
But often it’s the mysterious art of coming up with just the right caption that separates the cartooning wheat from the cartooning chaff.
For this new wave of consumer stepping into crypto, the challenge will be separating the chaff from the wheat.
However, chaff only works for so long you can only have so many of them.
In Nepal such materials are replaced with Mvaḥ Chā, a mortar obtained by kneading clay, cow manure and chaff, rice grains casings.
Re the numbers, I’m not throwing any chaff, I’m simply stating the numbers.
This unit, trained by North Korean instructors, was code named “Gukurahundi,” — the rain that washes away the chaff.
This will help you sort the useful ones from the chaff, and so better see our futures.
He said she should be "shoved in a chaff bag" and that her father had died "of shame".
I removed the chaff (coffee skins) that surfaced during the roasting process by setting up a box fan.
This is essential to shore up market confidence in the sector and help lenders separate the wheat from the chaff.
This is what this series of articles does; to attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff in the CEF world.
To use some old axioms, "The cream is rising to the top" and "The wheat is being separated from the chaff," if you will.
Trouble is, there’s so much choice that it’s difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Common combinations with chaff
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: