Sentence examples for chopped away from inspiring English sources

Some brought ice picks and chopped away at it.

While I ate, he chopped away at another stalk of celery, then halted.

Doorway arches are sealed up with bricks, and jagged edges show where bricks have supposedly been chopped away.

But they weren't murals, they were softer, more unstable linen, hung not stretched, patches sometimes chopped away, like limbs.

Jack, a local hairdresser, chopped away my Antarctic beard and hair, which had been a science experiment to see how long they could grow over a year.

These are sleek stripped-down machines, recalling a style, popular after World War II, in which owners chopped away excess to make their bikes leaner and faster.

Now, chop away and lift him up by the shoulders.

He giddily chops away at the conventions of formula movies and the logic that binds them.

Madmen with machetes are chopping away at the wood — any wood, deadwood, doesn't matter.

People think this lovely plant should stop at, say, 10 feet, and they chop away accordingly.

Anderson overpitches outside off and Williamson coolly chops away for four just backward of square.