chunk of

Frequency: 9.545.5 per million words

A very common pattern to specify what the chunk is made of (e.g., chunk of cheese, chunk of text).

chunkNOUN + PREPOSITION

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of

Examples (10)

  • He cut a large chunk of bread for his soup.
  • A significant chunk of the company's profit was reinvested into research.
  • I had to memorize a long chunk of text for the play.
  • The sculptor started with a rough chunk of marble.
  • She dedicates a solid chunk of her morning to meditation.
  • The program processes the data in a single chunk of 256 bytes.
  • The fruit salad was filled with large chunks of pineapple and melon.
  • A considerable chunk of the electorate remains undecided.
  • A large chunk of my next paycheck will go towards paying off that debt.
  • He inherited a substantial chunk of land from his grandfather.