How to Use chop up in a Sentence

chop up

phrasal verb
Definition of chop upnext
  • The Mask would pull an ax out of his body and chop up his victims.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 26 July 2024
  • If your child is 4 years or older, give them chopped up vegetables to make the ants.
    — Amy Morin, Parents, 22 July 2024
  • The home was very chopped up with a center staircase, so the rooms were small and lacked a good flow and cohesive style.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 28 Aug. 2024
  • The mower chopped them up with ease, finely chopping up any leaves, too.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2023
  • One of the few times a federal antitrust suit has been used to chop up a tech company was the 1982 breakup of AT&T.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • There the plastic is cleaned, chopped up, and turned into nurdles—the pellets used to make new plastic items.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 13 June 2023
  • There are also leaf vacuums that vacuum, chop up and put the leaves in a bag.
    — Susan Barton, The Conversation, 8 Nov. 2023
  • We are swamped in the wake of their yachts and chopped up by the propeller blades, even if the billionaires, sitting on the top deck, scarcely feel a bump.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 May 2023
  • Videos are chopped up and added to a metaphorical content buffet, creating a feast for the eyes and brain.
    — Anna Mattson, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2024
  • This not only serves to propel the hagfish forward, but also helps chop up the gelatin into pieces.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 June 2024
  • Thanks to their versatile recipes, deviled eggs are super easy to chop up, slice, or mash into a spread.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2024
  • And sometimes the crickets also end up chopped up inside hay, making the hay less valuable.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • Where the smooth landscape of spacetime meets the discrete, uncertain realm of the quanta, space and time get chopped up in a cosmic scale Cuisinart.
    — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
  • They truly were chopped up and made specifically for the rider.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
  • That blackening banana gets chopped up and frozen for smoothies.
    — Georgina Hayden, Bon Appétit, 29 June 2023
  • Machetes can be used to clear brush, chop firewood, remove turf, chop up plants for compost, harvest, prune shrubs, weed, and even dig holes.
    — Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2024
  • For instance, the Dawes Act of 1887 allowed the federal government to chop up the Band’s land and sell it to non-tribal citizens.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
  • It’s got a stainless steel blade, two speeds, and a pulse setting to do everything from shredding cheese to chopping up vegetables.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • Motor Power Not all portable blenders are going to be able to blend up ice, notes Petrucci, or chop up bigger pieces of frozen fruit or leafy greens.
    — Melanie Rud, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
  • People who need to chop up ice or blend heavier ingredients.
    — Melanie Rud, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Back in the wilderness, Travis accepts Javi’s death rather quickly, grieving briefly before giving Shauna the okay to chop up his body for sustenance.
    — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 29 May 2023
  • Daddy chopped the nuts into perfectly sized pieces while Mother chopped up dates and candied fruit, cherries, and pineapple.
    — Cassandra King, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Add peanut butter cups: For more fun toppings, consider chopping up peanut butter cups and sprinkling them on top.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2023
  • For example, the bytes making up an email are chopped up into their constituent bits on one end, and reassembled (sometimes out of order) on the other end.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • Ever since the coffee shop in the old hotel closed, this is where the morning talkers meet to chop up current events, discuss local politics and gossip.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • Its stainless steel blades are designed to chop up and blend nuts, ice, vegetables, and other tough ingredients.
    — Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2024
  • While much of the US is chopped up to compact metropolitans or rural farmland, the best beaches across the U.S. offer the most breathtaking views the country has to offer.
    — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2024
  • Use this manual food processor to chop up all kinds of vegetables and cut down on your cooking (no pun intended).
    — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2023
  • It’s made with milk, enzymes – these are proteins that can chop up other proteins – bacterial cultures and salt.
    — John A. Lucey, The Conversation, 24 July 2024
  • Modern tech has allowed more industries to chop up jobs into smaller parts and to send many of those parts to underpaid workers overseas.
    — Whizy Kim, Vox, 9 May 2024

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