How to Use chop down in a Sentence

chop down

phrasal verb
Definition of chop downnext
  • The story goes that the people on the remote island chopped down all the trees to build massive stone statues, triggering a population collapse.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 June 2024
  • Daniel Jordan had been chopped down in the box to yield the penalty.
    — Keith Pearson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The narrator chops down the trees to use their foliage to knit clothing.
    — The Week Staff, theweek, 24 May 2024
  • The narrator chops down the trees to use their foliage to knit clothing.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 31 May 2023
  • Yet over the last 160 years, much of this forest has been chopped down and regrown nearly three times.
    — Cara Buckley Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Chances are Link will stumble upon an ax, which could be used to chop down trees.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • When the firefighter chops down the branch to which Asher has been clinging, he is sent hurtling into the stratosphere.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024
  • So that was always hard to do, especially when, inevitably, a lot of the scenes of every character were chopped down from the book to the film.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
  • So that was always hard to do, especially when, inevitably, a lot of the scenes of every character were chopped down from the book to the films.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Groves of ancient redwoods and other trees were chopped down and sent south to help build a fast-growing San Francisco.
    — Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • That makes this machete perfect for chopping down small brush and cutting firewood or thicker brush with the saw edge.
    — Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2024
  • But trees are chopped down all the time, sometimes to be made into paper, the substance on which photos are most often printed.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
  • Each morning on their plot of land on the other side of Miami, Jesse climbs a tree and chops down a coconut with a machete so his boys can drink the freshest milk and water.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
  • Finding the perfect artificial tree isn’t any easier than finding the right real one to chop down at the tree farm.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Construction workers were called in to dismantle the kitchen, and at one point, workers began chopping down trees lining the park.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Emissions from changes in land use, mostly from chopping down forests, are expected to add another four billion tons.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Elizabeth is also big into gardening and even logging—as in, chopping down trees and hauling them around.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 7 June 2023
  • Indeed, technology now advances so quickly that by the time the trees are chopped down for a sci-fi book to be printed, its futuristic visions are already passé.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2011
  • But not everyone has the opportunity to hit the local tree farm to chop down a tree, or even spend time surveying the lots for that perfect holiday centerpiece.
    — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But that cushion, which the guardrails system normally would use to pay down the state’s pension debt, could get chopped down considerably if the governor endorses his fellow Democrats’ plans.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The Palestinians have been killed by extremist settlers, their houses burned down, pushed out of villages, olive orchards chopped down in the middle of olive season, which is the number one income producing time for a lot of these villagers.
    — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Deforestation was the main driver: In the Amazon, for instance, ranchers chop down the rainforest and burn the detritus, both adding carbon to the atmosphere and reducing the landscape’s ability to capture it again.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • In response, conservationists here are frantically chopping down trees — and are even contemplating burning them down.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • According to Smith, many think the solution is to chop down more trees, including the eucalyptus the koalas desperately rely on for survival, which, undoubtedly, will make things hotter still.
    — Elizabeth Warkentin, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024

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