How to Use chop off in a Sentence

chop off

phrasal verb

• Just don't chop off any hands, OK? Where to buy it: online at Ultrasabers.com.
  — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2024
• But in a final act of sadism, Blood and Cheese instead chose to taunt Maelor with his mother's decision before chopping off Jaehaerys' head.
  — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 17 June 2024
• One of them then struggles to chop off his head with a hoe.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
• Gawain chops off the head of the Green Knight, who then picks up his head; says, See you in a year; and rides away.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Step 5Slice 2 chops off lamb and serve with half each of salad and dressing.
  — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 8 Aug. 2023
• And just like that… Sarita Choudhury has chopped off her hair!
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2023
• In the clip, Taylor watched a hairdresser chop off her two long ponytails.
  — Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
• Yet Eilish cannot kill it by shooting it or chopping off its head.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Did these family members cry or protest when their relatives chopped off the hands and heads of some of their victims?
  — Randy Ertll, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Which also begs the question: Why does the Hatbox Ghost still have an intact skull on his shoulders in the afterlife if his was chopped off and lost?
  — Joey Nolfi and Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 29 July 2023
• The Grace and Frankie actress changed up her look on Thursday, chopping off a significant amount of inches on her blonde locks.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
• The sanctions were portrayed as a multi-headed serpent (the Hydra), with Putin having chopped off the head belonging to the United States.
  — Valerie Sperling, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2015
• Faith Pinho: Paulina had chopped off her hair after leaving.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• Hatred is chopping off your toe and wondering why the other person isn’t limping.
  — Hazlitt, 7 Feb. 2024
• In a shocking turn of events, the Don't Worry Darling star chopped off her signature blonde tresses to debut a brunette buzzcut for the feathers to rest upon.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 2 May 2023
• According to accounts shared with The Washington Post, little girls and boys have melted their Barbies on the stove, run them over with bikes, chopped off their limbs and buried them in shallow graves in the woods.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• Henderson basically chopped off the back half of the Wrangler's cab, removing the rear seats and cargo area but leaving the ladder frame beneath.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 16 June 2023
• Built in 1796, ghost stories center around the tale of an enslaved woman named Chloe, who had her ear chopped off after she was reportedly caught eavesdropping.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023
• Today’s backlash against diversity and inclusion efforts can also be seen through this lens: a third leg of men’s status being chopped off.
  — Bymohamed El Aassar, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• Like so many of its forebears in this space, Shōgun is a violent story about political intrigue in which women quietly influence and enact their own aims while ambitious men stand around outside chopping off heads.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2024
• Already known in her native country for appearing in advertisements, Córdula was catapulted to the international stage after taking a friend’s suggestion and chopping off her hair.
  — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Aug. 2023
• Cleanup costs have soared, partly due to larger surface mines that blew up or chopped off entire mountaintops, and partly because modern studies have increasingly identified water pollutants requiring lengthy and expensive treatment.
  — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 26 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024