Sentence examples for axes chop from inspiring English sources

The phrase "axes chop" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe the action of chopping with axes, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "The lumberjacks used their axes to chop down the trees in the forest."
Alternatives: "axes cut" or "axes strike".

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The scene: the mayor posing for photos, as axes chop into crates of cola.

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The cabin, and the woods around them, have also undergone substantial renovations: the shack is a parody of the vacation homes of the day, and the neighborhood, far from a pristine wilderness, is Concord's main wood supply, the mid-19th-century equivalent of "an electric power plant or a gas station," where "the sound of axes chopping was ubiquitous".

In the journals, Foster began to notice sights and sounds in Thoreau's 19th-century landscape that were at odds with the landscape around his cabin in the woods: Thoreau described bells, cows and everywhere axes chopping wood, while it was quiet around the Vermont cabin.

So we would line our way back to a bee tree, take an axe, chop it open, and take a ladle and dig out some honeycombs and bring them home on a plate.

He practiced a few horrendous death-dealing swing techniques — the sidearm golf follow-through, the overhead back-crushing axe chop, the short, quick, line-drive baseball checked swing — the wrench head making ragged divots in the hard-packed dirt floor.

The recession, now in full axe-chopping swing, has led to more than half of UK employees planning to cancel their summer holidays, according to TipTopJob.com.

The cicadas chirp loud on the slipstream of the downpour, the red earth is soft with water – from across the road comes the sound of an axe chopping carcasses of meat, and the scent of woodsmoke.

Many in local government believe that while this year was bad, next year's council budgets will be far trickier; while for some town halls this year the cuts axe chopped through fat, next year the blade will hit bone.

Ellen mutilates Bruce's body even further with an axe, chopping off nearly every limb from the writhing body.

Parallel to this, some months ago another person we met got attacked with an axe and he got 36 axe chops on his body, including his head.

When I painted it my intention had been to make a zen painting inspired by a Japanese scroll painting of a monk who has a moment of realization when he hears the sound of his axe chopping down a tree.

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