Sentence examples for to chop around from inspiring English sources

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

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).

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).

According to the post, Burd was hiking down a mountain in the area Aug. 19, 2014, when Bourne shouted that "he had discovered a Native American bow sticking out from the ice and rock in what remained of a glacier". Bourne then used stone tools to chop the ice around the bow to extract it, Burd's post said.

All sorts of comic scenarios come to mind as you wander around – imagine trying to chop that rubber 'wooden log' with the rubber axe that lies nearby.

Firefighters caught a break Monday when the weather changed slightly with an inversion layer that stuck around long enough to chop in half the towering plume of smoke that for a week had compounded the fire.

Players try to hit a severe hook (or fade, for left-handers) around the corner to chop off the distance remaining and try to secure a flattish lie for the second shot.

You may find you have to chop apart some splintered wood grain around large knots to completely split the block.

The brambles we never got around to chopping down bore the most delicious, fattest blackberries I've ever eaten.