How to Use chop up in a Sentence

chop up

phrasal verb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• In October, the actress shared a video on Instagram recreating a pasta dish and used the food processor to chop up garlic and shallots.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
• The English dialogue sounds like it has been placed into a food processor, chopped up and reassembled at random, and then run through a few audio filters.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• The gang’s members were linked to dozens of murders on Long Island and in Queens in the mid-2010s, often using machetes to chop up their victims, leading to a series of crackdowns that netted scores of suspects in recent years.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 12 June 2024
• According to authorities, the suspect chopped up the artwork and sold it to local scrapyard Alco Iron & Metal Company, which then shipped off the remains the same day.
  — Gabriel Greschler, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
• Our attention spans have been chopped up and commodified, sold off piecemeal to platforms and algorithms.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024