Sentence examples for wind chopped from inspiring English sources

Italy, 1962: "In the late afternoon, when the feral cats were sunning themselves on the rocks, a cool spring wind chopped the surface of the sea and Pasquale retreated to the piazza to smoke alone, before the fishermen came to drink.

This year, it's so sparse it's letting in the wind chop".

The women racing today, for roughly two hours, had to contend physically and psychologically not only with the elements — a strong opposing current, wind chop on the surface, a blazing sun, water high in bacteria — but also with one another, ceaselessly, right up to the last hundredth of a second.

In winter, high winds chop the water into an opaque froth; summertime drives the temperatures above 120 degrees, hammering crews and delicate electronics.

In the old Final Cut, if you dragged Clip A so that it overlapped part of Clip B, even briefly, you wound up chopping away the covered-up piece of Clip B. But now, the timeline sprouts enough new parallel "tracks" to keep both of the overlapping clips.

We look at each other, thinking we are about to meet our future husbands, make a friend or two, have dinner, or wind up dead and chopped up in a closet.

"You think it's beautiful," he would say as the sun came out from behind a cloud and shone on the blue clear water, lightly chopped by the wind.

(James Surowiecki, The New Yorker) E. Cheryl's mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.