Sentence examples for were chopping down from inspiring English sources
The tribesmen were chopping down the trees as fast as they could, to hoard them, my friend said, in case the Army tried to steal the wood when it arrived.
In June, 2008, while reporting for The New Yorker, I drove five hundred miles through once-fertile farmlands — they were barren and overgrown, and, in one area, poor peasants were chopping down citrus orchards for firewood.
People were chopping down the surrounding trees to give the soldiers more visibility in case militants tried to sneak into the camp again.
"Of course, you have to remember that this was after the Civil War so trees across the nation had been denuded as part of the war effort but, as Evelyn himself says in the book, as a result of industrial activities - such as glass making - people were chopping down trees, therefore they had to be replaced," he told BBC News.
Five years ago, Durschinger found her ideal forest in the Cambodian province of Oddar Meanchey, where new migrants and soldiers were chopping down scattered bits of forestland in a pattern called "mosaic deforestation".
It all went in the early 1950s as the orchards were chopped down to house uranium workers.
In the first centuries after the settlement the forests were chopped down and the soil underwent erosion on sheep pastures.
In the war, most of the east's trees were chopped down for firewood.
So his suspicions were aroused last fall when the trees were chopped down and the shrubbery cleared.
About 700 trees were chopped down, and since then, Greenpoint has been a little less green.
