How to Use chipper in a Sentence

chipper

1 of 2 noun
  • On the flip side of all this, let’s talk about the wood chipper.
    Tim Stack, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Tiger is once again one of the five best chippers/pitchers in the world.
    SI.com, 13 June 2018
  • Time to toss this week in the wood chipper and move on to better things.
    Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019
  • So one of the counters to that is, let’s chip and get those chippers out in routes.
    Andy Benoit, SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The Sixers have Markelle Fultz, who could be the blue-chipper the Spurs could covet.
    Charles Curtis, For The Win, 5 July 2018
  • The two times the Padres won a pennant, they got fed into a wood chipper.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • One man cut down felled trees and shredded them in a wood chipper.
    Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2018
  • In less creative hands, the squares and triangles would be doomed to the chipper.
    Joanne Cleaver, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Bond traders haven’t been feeling this chipper for a long time.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2019
  • The landowner was far less chipper now, in his room, the back of the bed cranked up, ice water and green Jell-O at his side.
    Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
  • What did the chipper spring breaker say to his beach buddies?
    Country Living, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, Johnson said the city had to rent a chipper recently due to need.
    John Benson, cleveland, 23 June 2021
  • The show has spent a lot of time on male intimacy, and our chipper hero needs to be close to his son.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • Miller had the No. 1 draft pick in Deandre Ayton, plus a slew of blue chippers.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Timony said crews plan to go through with a chipper in the coming weeks to breakdown the wood.
    James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The chipper spewed out a high-speed stream into a truck bound for a nearby Enviva mill.
    New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Reportedly, the machine fell off the jack onto the man while two men were working on the wood chipper.
    Layla McMurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2022
  • The good news: looking chipper, Miller returned to the Boston bench with 50 seconds left in the period.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2021
  • The clothing store clerk, thin and deadpan, is the perfect foil for Schumer’s chipper, play-along reactions.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • In the final weeks of the campaign, Crist and Fried put each other through a political wood chipper.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Volunteers can help process debris by moving it to the brush chipper.
    courant.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Count on a decent wine list and chipper, knowledgeable staff.
    Michael Klein, Philly.com, 11 July 2018
  • The men were driving a company truck with an attached wood chipper.
    Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • The scraper end features a flat blade with a chipper on its side that splits the ice into more manageable sections.
    Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Afterward, Walthall planned to torture the judge and shred him in a wood chipper, according to court papers.
    Daily Pilot, 30 July 2019
  • But benthic dwellers are difficult to haul up to the surface alive, let alone chipper.
    Sabrina Imbler, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The team writes for the Conversation that many of these cues are vocal, like the chipper whistles of dolphins or the haunting songs of humpback whales.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The thief, who was never identified, used bolt cutters to cut a large chain securing the chipper.
    Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Both artists are good-humored, chipper, and endlessly chatty, cracking nonstop jokes about the many twists and turns in their lives so far.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The park service advises visitors not to hike in the park after 10 a.m. during extreme summer temperatures, but Steve was chipper.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
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chipper

2 of 2 adjective
  • She greeted me in a chipper voice.
  • My, you're looking chipper this morning.
  • Say goodbye to that chipper grin and say hello to tears at your desks.
    Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The team writes for the that many of these cues are vocal, like the chipper whistles of dolphins or the haunting songs of humpback whales.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The elderly men on the flight to Missoula were way too chipper with their fishing rods.
    Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2018
  • The chipper tone of the tweet, which seemed to be prescheduled and has since been deleted, was wildly out of tune with Equifax’s massive blunder.
    David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The lady at Counter 11 was helpful, chipper, and the transaction was quick and painless.
    Sainted & Tainted Writers, Twin Cities, 8 June 2019
  • From Home, Holland is a fun member of a chipper teen ensemble.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 24 June 2018
  • Not all of Trump’s allies are so chipper about the outcome of the investigation.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Try to snag a counter seat at Lucienne, which has a fresh, chipper décor unlike anything else in town.
    Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The emotional register had shifted too quickly: from chipper small talk to moist-eyed panic in the space of a minute.
    Daniel Kolitz, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Orosz claimed earlier that he had been fired after taking a city truck and an attached wood chipper home on lunch break to clear brush near his house.
    Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The young baseball players who gathered at the Lockport dome one recent Friday night seemed chipper enough when the game began.
    John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Ron, Bern and Tom Dusing all began working in the shop in their teens, picking up blocks of ice with metal tongs and throwing them into the ice chipper to be bagged.
    Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2017
  • The legs of rear-seat passengers won’t be as chipper, however, as the front seats intrude into their space, leaving less than three feet of legroom.
    Car and Driver, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The city will not take rocks, piles of dirt, sod, plastic pots, plastic bags, food waste or gravel, as these items cannot be put through the county's chipper machinery.
    Ann Norman, cleveland.com, 24 May 2017
  • Free food provided by Amtrak has been served by crew members eager to help maintain the chipper morale.
    Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2019
  • Meanwhile, a host of overly chipper employees in blue aprons gave tours of the store’s wares based on con-goers’ personal plans for Purge Night.
    Devon Maloney, The Verge, 23 July 2018
  • A chipper, gray-haired grandmother, Hultcrantz seems unaware of her power.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • But the opening scene, which finds two sets of married friends discussing the idea of polyamory over wine and cheese, has the chipper blitheness of those comedies of middle-class manners that were once the bread and butter of Broadway.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2017
  • As fans streamed into the reserve level, a quartet of men in Dodgers hats — on a tuba, clarinet, trumpet and banjo — played chipper tunes.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Maya Rudolph is Smiler, the first emoji ever, who runs the whole show and is of course a chipper Tracy Flick nightmare of hostility and repressed anger.
    Dave Holmes, Esquire, 31 July 2017
  • That said, the royal couple stepped out for a public appearance at the St. Patrick's Day parade in London, and seemed perfectly chipper and at ease.
    Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 17 Mar. 2017
  • The allure of his show comes with the reactions of his famous guests, who often break down and show a very different side than their usual chipper selves on the talk-show circuit.
    Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The result is a new sort of indie rock that is chipper, rinky-dink, self-consciously handmade with discount-store melodies and neon attitude.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • In another instance, a truck and wood chipper were reported stolen.
    Jennifer James, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2019
  • The streets at the top of Montmartre, where the absinthe flowed freely, and where Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted cancan girls and blowsy barmaids, are today immaculate and chipper.
    Tara Isabella Burton, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2017
  • But, when Lillian talks with Anna’s brother, Don, Lillian sounds chipper and content.
    Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Brianna Dodson brings winningly bright notes to the chipper Bradley.
    James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In the video, Mazooji shows off some unexpectedly chipper dance moves for someone pulling an all-nighter.
    Evelyn Wang, CNT, 25 Sep. 2017

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