Sentence examples for chopper off from inspiring English sources

St . Louisthird baseman Miguel Cairo, subbing for the injured Scott Rolen, was playing deep when Benito Santiago then hit a chopper off the plate.

Trailing by 1-0 in the second inning, the Yankees had runners at first and third and Glenallen Hill bounced a high chopper off the plate.

With the Mets' middle infielders back for a possible inning-ending double play, DeRosa hit a high chopper off the front of the plate to the right side of the mound, too shallow for any chance at a double play.

Giambi's bouncer moved Melky Cabrera from first to third, and Derek Jeter followed with chopper off the pitcher's glove that drove in the winning run in the Yankees' 7-6 victoverover the Baltimore Orioles.

He fielded a chopper off the bat of first baseman Tommy Joseph, but he fired a wild throw past Grandal.

Here comes a chopper to chop off your head (it's roughly the right part of town).

Even in a nursery-rhyme from the early 19th century, the city bristles with danger: "Here comes a candle to light you to bed/And here comes a chopper to chop off your head".Mark Ford, a poet and the editor of this volume, clearly delights in such juxtapositions.

Joe also quotes the old English nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons", singing "Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head!".

From the Christina O he choppers off to Turkey, and a brief sojourn downmarket at a camel-wrestling fair in the hills outside Izmir.

He quotes the commanding United States admiral calling attention to the drone of choppers off on another sortie, possibly ill informed: "How I love the sound of freedom in the air".

I never understood why there was a chopper coming to chop off my head.