Sentence examples for chopping around from inspiring English sources

For the past couple years, crude oil has been chopping around in the $30 to $60 trading range as traders parse conflicting factors such as the persistent oil glut, OPEC production cuts, rebounding U.S. shale oil production, and the vagaries of the U.S. dollar.

(After saying no, and karate chopping around a lot. Then saying yes).

Glacier Bay's mercurial weather was in the forefront of my mind last summer, but for some reason, three hours after pushing off, I had steered us into the middle of Muir Inlet, with about three-quarters of a mile of water on either side of us, when the waves began chopping around the kayak.

There's footballers out there who earn £80,000 a week and they chop around on the grass and they think they earned their money.

January 1988 came close but didn't reach this kind of extreme (stocks chopped around, edging slightly higher, for seven months after Jan 1988).

That alone is enough, says Ms Boone, to chop around a percentage point off GDP growth in 2012.

"You don't go around chopping off the tops of paintings so they fit in the frames you've got lying around," Flavorwire film critic Jason Bailey wrote.

Brown the lamb on all sides, and sprinkle the chopped onion and chopped carrot around it.

This passage is vulgar for many reasons, not least Trump's envy at ISIS' ability to go around chopping people's heads off.

— Rory McIlroy wielded his new Nike clubs like weed whackers, chopping his way around the Abu Dhabi Golf Club this week on his way to consecutive rounds of 75 that left him outside the cut line.

He waved his arms around, chopping the air, patting one hand against the other like two butterflies fighting over a flower, hurling the glad tidings out to us inside the tent (sorry, the Hilton Metropole, London).