down a/the chute
Frequency: 7.21.5 per million words
Indicates movement downwards through a chute.
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Examples (10)
- He tossed the discarded wrapping down the chute.
- Every morning, she sends the dirty linens down the laundry chute.
- The kids couldn't wait to slide down the giant water chute.
- I watched the garbage bag disappear down the chute.
- Tons of coal rattled down a chute into the ship's hold.
- In the old skyscraper, you could mail letters by dropping them down a mail chute.
- I gathered up all the towels and dropped them down the chute.
- Please make sure the recycling goes down the correct chute.
- The logs tumbled one after another down the chute to the sawmill.
- The workers were feeding cardboard down the recycling chute all afternoon.