Sentence examples for to chop through from inspiring English sources

His big, precise strokes made a sharp hacking noise, and it took many hacks — two, three, four, five hard hacks — to chop through the cow's leg.

MEAT CLEAVERS: With thick blades designed to chop through meat and bone without chipping the sharp edge, meat cleavers are useful for chopping bones for stock, cutting oxtails, separating ribs and cutting up chickens.

We all know the story of Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival: the boos, the cheers, Pete Seeger overheard backstage wishing that he had an axe to chop through the microphone cable.

As the legend has it, an outraged old guard personified by folk's elder statesman Pete Seeger strove to stop the show – Seeger supposedly attempting to chop through the power cables with an axe – while fans erupted in a conflicted cacophony of boos, cheers and protests against the sheer volume of the performance, as much as what it signified.

GrindCandy's wood grinders are designed with two rows of teeth to chop through herb easily.

The burglars brought an axe with them and they used it to chop through the front door.

But under the bill, it would be O.K. for a driller to chop his way through the forest to set up a drilling rig.

Wright looks to chop him away through point, but in fact edges over slip for four to get off the mark.

In the afternoon, Greg Gecas, Ms. Gecas's husband, had dispatched their teenage son, Paul, to chop a big hole through the ice in waist-deep water.

John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board and a former aircraft mechanic, said chicken wire would barely make a difference in a bird hit, and a heavier screen might break and be sucked into the engine as well; there it would be more of a problem than bird bodies, which are easier for the engine blades to chop up and pass through.

The HAMDAS-R is able to "feel" where it needs to stop cutting and won't accidentally chop through bones or leave fragments in the meat.