How to Use lopper in a Sentence

lopper

noun

• When the tree is too large to pull, take a small pruning saw or loppers and cut it off and herbicide the stump.
  — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Try using loppers or a Sawzall to remove the legs and head.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Sep. 2023
• But not all trees are shorn equally, and all are assessed before the saws and loppers come out.
  — Tammy La Gorce, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2016
• These Fiskar loppers are 28 inches long from handle to blade tip.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023
• Use loppers for 3/8 inch thick wood up to, maybe, ¾ inch, providing the wood is soft and moist enough to cut easily.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• Bring a water bottle, work gloves, tools (saws, loppers, rakes, etc.).
  — courant.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Larger branches should be cut with loppers, a pruning saw or even a chain saw.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• Guns have been all but excised in this spinoff in favor of close-up choppers and loppers, like swords and axes.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 27 June 2017
• This is when a chainsaw lopper or pole saw can be invaluable.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 15 Aug. 2019
• Use pruners or loppers to remove or shorten limbs that may be in the way of landscape chores, buildings, drives or pathways.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 July 2017
• Use loppers for trimming trees, cutting large woody stems and clearing brush.
  — Jodi Torpey/ Special To The Denver Post, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• If your tools have moving parts, such as with pruners, shears, and loppers, disassemble them first.
  — Cindy Daniel, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Use bypass pruners on small branches, loppers on medium-sized branches and a saw on big branches.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• Clean, sharpen and sterilize cutting tools such as pruners and loppers.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• Larger pruning shears like loppers can slice heavy tree branches or dense foliage up to 2 or 3 inches.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023
• Saplings can be cut into manageable pieces with loppers, then fed into a wood chipper and turned into mulch.
  — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2019
• Like all other Fiskar pruning shears, this lopper is backed by a lifetime warranty.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023
• For trimming and pruning tasks that are too big for manual loppers but too small to use a regular chainsaw, reach for a mini chainsaw.
  — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
• However, there is something different about this new pair of loppers.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 2 May 2018
• A number of pruners and loppers feature a spring return ratcheting mechanism that requires less hand and wrist pressure.
  — Jodi Torpey/ Special To The Denver Post, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• Tommy Shelton and deputy Donald Dehnert, the inmates suited up with rubber boots, gloves, goggles, loppers and machetes before walking into the work area inside the park.
  — Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• Undaunted, Silver, a watershed ecologist, shoves the branches of sunny yellow out of the way, following the trail of her attack team of locals with loppers, set to beat back this invader: Scotch broom.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024