Sentence examples for chopping away from inspiring English sources

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

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

That allows Republicans, who want to take an axe to the budget, to claim they are chopping away.

I also think there's something a bit simplistic about chopping away at clothes to let your extremities breathe.

Perhaps most seriously in the present economic environment, the bill will aggravate infla tion by chopping away at foreign competition.

He took out his buck knife and started chopping away at the rope that held the buoy in place.

Some brought ice picks and chopped away at it.

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.

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

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