Chunk in a sentence as a noun

A big chunk of the decline can be attributed to the rise of the iPad.

32% of my salary was a chunk of change large enough to buy a family sedan, cash.

He must sue to get them back.> Many police departments now depend on forfeiture for a fat chunk of their budgets.

If Zynga can become a player by launching a hit or acquiring a large chunk of the space, they'll be doing better than ever.

Instead they tend to either a pay a chunk via a buyout, or they generate income over time with advertising/partnerships.

If you look in the code you'll see a big commented out chunk where I tried randomly sampling computer moves to get sort of an 'expected value' for the opposition's move.

Chunk in a sentence as a verb

If the biggest chunk of car buyers are vegetarians, and your car consistently smells of bacon, you need to translate that into something positive somehow.

Since the proposal is for a new bytecode, the author will have to implement their own interpreter and/or JIT compiler for it, and writing an efficient one is an extremely large chunk of work.

Of course, GitHub did not invent git, but they made it easy to host your repositories, and once Rails migrated to GitHub, the rest of the Ruby world came with it - followed shortly thereafter by a sizable chunk of the wider web development community.

Also, I imagine a significant chunk of posts to Twitter come from apps, many of which each use a single IP to post tons of content.> Is there a reason the same techniques used in E-Mail aren't applicable to Twitter?There's definitely some overlap.

I'm a very proficient computer user--the same gap between supertechnical and nontechnical users exists in the blind community, perhaps even magnified by other aspects such as secondary disabilities in a good chunk of the blind population.

Chunk definitions

noun

a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"

See also: ball clod glob lump clump

noun

a substantial amount; "we won a chunk of money"

verb

put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants"

See also: lump

verb

group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

See also: collocate lump