Sentence examples for were chopped down from inspiring English sources
About 700 trees were chopped down, and since then, Greenpoint has been a little less green.
It all went in the early 1950s as the orchards were chopped down to house uranium workers.
So his suspicions were aroused last fall when the trees were chopped down and the shrubbery cleared.
Six London planes, which date from the 1945 construction of the housing complex, were chopped down inside the central Stuyvesant Oval near East 17th Street.
"You don't often see deciduous trees round here, because they were chopped down for firewood and for ships in the 17th and 18th centuries".
People were chopping down the surrounding trees to give the soldiers more visibility in case militants tried to sneak into the camp again.
Those trees are chopped down somewhere else.
Trees on the surrounding hills, as everywhere in Haiti, have been chopped down for charcoal.
An awful lot of trees still have to be chopped down to provide that.
"Since the forest has been chopped down, it's difficult to get food," says one elder, Darmizi.
