How to Use chop shop in a Sentence

chop shop

noun

• Put the brakes on it, take off the wheels, and cut it up at a chop shop.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
• One time the owner of a chop shop hit Jewett over the head with a bike fork.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• Car thieves smash into Jeff’s wood-sided SUV and drive it to a chop shop.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
• In 2004 he was arrested for a slew of car thefts and running a chop shop.
  — al, 29 Jan. 2020
• Mike Tyson is playing an arms-dealing, chop shop–owning gangster.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 May 2022
• Anyone with information about the chop shop is asked to contact the department.
  — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2021
• But that doesn’t mean street crime — such as bicycle chop shops, theft, drug dealing and harassing pedestrians — is OK.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
• The agency also contends with bicycle chop shops and other sources of detritus.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2019
• Dunkins pleaded guilty to the three counts in exchange for having two third-degree burglary charges and an additional operating chop shop charge dropped.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
• One set of photos provided by a de-miner show how the group set up an open-air chop shop to cut open unexploded American aircraft bombs and remove the explosive inside.
  — John Ismay, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and C. J. Chivers, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
• During his long exile in France, Tin lived in a public-housing project in a neighborhood full of auto chop shops, phone stores and corner groceries selling spices and other foods from France’s old colonial empire.
  — Thomas A. Bass, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
• Wiener defended Sheehy and pointed to the supervisor’s legislative accomplishments, including a law to discourage bicycle chop shops.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024