How to Use chain saw in a Sentence

chain saw

noun

• The female then quickly left the area in the car with the chain saw.
  — Houston Chronicle, 4 May 2020
• The worker with the chain saw shook his head at the digging out left to do.
  — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2021
• How to get rid of them: Never use a weed eater or a chain saw.
  — Judi Ketteler, Good Housekeeping, 24 Apr. 2022
• The chain saw became useless when its blade broke on nails in the floor.
  — SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Firehouse chain saw same-store sales growth of 4.2% in the quarter.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• The snowmachine was parked and the chain saw was going.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
• China is smoothing out the rough edges with a chain saw.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• The carburetor of my chain saw was on the workbench in 16 pieces when the call came in.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Oct. 2017
• Police found Ford face up with a chain saw by his right foot and two knives nearby.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• By now her arms feel too exhausted to lift her chain saw, let alone make a cut.
  — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2019
• Many of us that heat our houses with wood, even as a supplement, own a truck and a chain saw.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2020
• The chain saw orders of the holiday treat peak last year, a press statement said.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 12 Nov. 2022
• Police officers moved in, arrested the activists, and the sound of a chain saw filled the air.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2022
• Anyone with a chain saw and a ladder can call themselves a tree trimmer.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• Police say Walden was sitting on a tree limb and using a chain saw to trim other limbs.
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
• In mid-October, Vale started cutting the branch with a 20-inch chain saw.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
• One member, Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) wears a mask made out of human skin and wields a chain saw.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 28 Oct. 2022
• On a hot spring day here, cumbia beats played inside the discount store that served as the backdrop in viral videos of Peña revving his chain saw.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2021
• On his commute to work, Jonah Gage strapped spikes to his boots and clipped his chain saw to his waist at the base of an 80-foot cottonwood tree.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2021
• Abel, for example, sees a local mayor get strapped to a piano and cut in half with a chain saw.
  — Matthew Adams, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• The man dropped his chain saw, but the homeowner tackled him another quarter of a mile to the west, near Holy Cross Catholic Church and its school.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
• Before lifting the tree onto the stand, workers used a chain saw to make a fresh cut at the base and then drilled a hole in the center of the base for the spike that will help hold it in place.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 29 Nov. 2021
• Bobby Lewis, 62, worked with his chain saw to clear a tree blocking Furniss Avenue, just a couple of blocks from the Goodwill store.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 12 Jan. 2023
• The stock saw uses a standard chain saw to slice two cookies from a horizontal log.
  — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• There's nothing more satisfying than revving up a chain saw and clearing a mess.
  — Annette Sisco, NOLA.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• The chain saw can remain running when the switch is on the off position or turn on when plugged in, posing an injury hazard to the user.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 Jan. 2022
• Captured in a viral video, he could be seen chasing the protesters away with a chain saw, yelling racial slurs over the frightening buzz.
  — James Dobbins, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2020
• His voice was soon drowned out by a buzzing chain saw as the members of his crew sliced into the tree trunk, revealing the orange flames that were hollowing it out.
  — Erin Ailworth, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2018
• The display includes a mannequin topped with a military helmet that’s holding a rifle and chain saw, as well as a can of beer.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
• His main tools are a chain saw, a cutting bit, a chisel, a sander, a special ice bit with nubs for shaping, a brush, a big hand saw and a pickle fork with teeth to chip away at the ice.
  — Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024