Sentence examples for a bone to chew from inspiring English sources

Reader and dog-lover Dave Inman writes, "For a literary dog like Prufrock, all you need is a shady spot on the porch, a bone to chew on, and a well-worn copy of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.' " _ Have you taken a photograph of books worth a thousand words?

Date Rape Brown after waiting at a bar for Wright says to her, "You nearly got me killed while you were out looking for a bone to chew on".

The government had thrown the Lib Dems a bone to chew on, only for them to snatch it back and shoo them away just as they had started to get their teeth into it.

Give him a bone to chew while on the mat.

Howard Davies, director of The London School of Economics and Political Science, said President Barack Obama's recent U.S. bank reform proposals provided a new bone to chew over.

Straight-actors-proudly-playing-gay is a tired bone to chew on, and James Franco's weirdly insistent gay oeuvre is even more tired, but these two elements of King Cobra conspire to make it the least gay gay film I've ever bothered to finish.

He also received a silver platter covered in cash totalling £53, the result of a whip-round by hotel staff, and a brown rubber bone to chew.

Without a large protectionist bone to chew on, the steel lobby would have sunk it.

If your puppy is teething, give it a clear "No!" if he nips on you and give it a chew toy or bone to chew on.

Go online or visit a pet store for gift ideas: Bone to chew on.

Some rawhide bones to chew on are a good distraction too.