Sentence examples for chopping down on from inspiring English sources

"It's like I had this huge, really sharp machete chopping down on me every time I tried to move," says an actress in one of the commercials.

For the first time last season, Ordóñez started swinging with an uppercut, instead of chopping down on the ball.

Once there, he will probably turn southpaw himself in the clinches to prevent Harrison chopping down on him with his numbing left hand.

In one ad, by the Levinson Tractenberg Group, an independent agency in Manhattan, an actress in her 30s sitting at a kitchen table says, "The pain was excruciating: It's like I had this huge, really sharp machete chopping down on me every time I tried to move".

So far Payton has shown more of the approach that Manager Bobby Valentine, the hitting coach Dave Engle and the former hitting instructor and current bench coach, Tom Robson, have preached over the past four seasons: stay balanced, get the right timing and, most of all, swing level rather than chopping down on the ball.

Chopping down trees will wear on your axe over time, and it will eventually break.

He chops down on quarterbacks' arms, often from behind, pulling arms toward him.

He chopped down on his right arm and pulled him to the ground.

The Wembley crowd, containing a generous sprinkling of noisy Argentinian supporters, reacted as if they had just seen Lionel Messi chopped down on the edge of the box.

Bunting is common, as is the attempt to chop down on a pitch, hitting a high-bouncing ground ball that either leads to an infield hit or bounces over the infield.

But Mr. Gere, who between films has immersed himself in country life — with a house, a bed-and-breakfast, and now a dispute over some trees he chopped down on his property in Westchester — showed little interest in his Chupi pied-à-terre.