Sentence examples for have chopped up from inspiring English sources

They have chopped up precious plant specimens, knocked down stalactites and dumped just about anything you can imagine beside crystal clear streams.

Tycoons have chopped up much of the coast for private mansions, and local residents complain that the public beaches that remain are too dirty and ill kept to enjoy.

"But the irony of that moment is that you are seeing a snuff movie - they have chopped up a human being, a baby". The footage, which Kaye describes as "probably the most controversial shot ever shown in cinemas", has raised accusations that the documentary is slanted against abortion.

In that case, under the new law, landowners could have chopped up to 50% of their forestland by 2008 and not face a penalty.

Yet somehow we have chopped up the world in which we live into an infinity of separateness, gaining, in the process, control (for some) over other people and dominion, as they say, over the planet.

She has chopped up her credit cards, on which she owed $7,200 two years ago.

how long would it take them to identify 12 places on campus from a set of blueprint fragments that I had chopped up and doctored with white-out?

Regulators accepted this, arguing that the "great moderation" had subdued macroeconomic dangers and that securitisation had chopped up individual firms' risks into manageable lumps.

That has chopped up the drama and forced organizers to scramble, with the regatta stretching well past its last scheduled finishing date.

You might think that having chopped up and cooked up as much meat as I have in my life that I would take a slaughterhouse in my stride.

They've chopped up the leaves into nopalitos for salads and stews, and used the fruit's juice for drinks and candy.