Wondering how to use Gumming in a sentence? Below are 4 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as mumbling or chew.
Gumming meaning
- The act of chewing without teeth.
- The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.
- The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone.
Synonyms of Gumming
Using Gumming
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of chewing without teeth. | The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal. | The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone.
- Useful related words include: mumbling, chew, chewing, mastication.
- In the example corpus, gumming often appears in combinations such as: gumming up.
Context around Gumming
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gumming
- In this selection, "gumming" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mind, turn, cow and illustrations stand out and add context to how "gumming" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and cow gumming illustrations onto and in turn gumming up the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gumming" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gumming
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cheap credit and a dearth of competition are in turn gumming up the machinery of the market economy. (18 words)
Rushton put it together in his bedroom in Scarsdale Villas using Letraset and cow-gumming illustrations onto cards which were taken away to be photo-lithographed. (26 words)
My mother and grandmother were coming to see me on the farm the next day, so I told them to wear clothes they didn’t mind gumming up. (28 words)
My mother and grandmother were coming to see me on the farm the next day, so I told them to wear clothes they didn’t mind gumming up. (28 words)
So he has set about one last gambit – what Dick Cheney to call “the last throes” – to steal the election he lost by gumming up the electoral college. (28 words)
Rushton put it together in his bedroom in Scarsdale Villas using Letraset and cow-gumming illustrations onto cards which were taken away to be photo-lithographed. (26 words)
Example sentences (4)
My mother and grandmother were coming to see me on the farm the next day, so I told them to wear clothes they didn’t mind gumming up.
So he has set about one last gambit – what Dick Cheney to call “the last throes” – to steal the election he lost by gumming up the electoral college.
Cheap credit and a dearth of competition are in turn gumming up the machinery of the market economy.
Rushton put it together in his bedroom in Scarsdale Villas using Letraset and cow-gumming illustrations onto cards which were taken away to be photo-lithographed.
Common combinations with gumming
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gumming up 3×