How to Use chainsaw in a Sentence

chainsaw

noun
  • Do not let your chainsaw hit the ground!
    — Steven John, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Have the rest of you moved on to juggling chainsaws?
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The same goes for a hammer, chainsaw and drill.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
  • The chainsaws went quiet all at once.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The small chainsaws have been a lifesaver.
    — Campbell Vaughn, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • No chainsaws, power tools or saws.
    — Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
  • No chainsaws, power tools or saws.
    — Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026
  • No chainsaws, power tools or saws.
    — Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Imagine a chainsaw at full gas or a jumbo jet taking off.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Final update to the bear stealing my chainsaw saga.
    — Mark Price november 11, Charlotte Observer, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Curry Barker is gassing up his chainsaw.
    — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
  • These items included an inflatable pool, two chainsaws, and a body bag.
    — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026
  • Which chainsaw is being recalled?
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Large sugar pines and ponderosa pines that died during droughts are also removed with chainsaws.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The next level then shifts to Leon, who picks up a chainsaw to cut his way through an onslaught of infected.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026
  • There are monks and chainsaws and coffins and pops of yellow, and each costume makes Cumming howl in laughter.
    — Jonathan Borge, InStyle, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Without chainsaws, egrets, or the large Great Dane in the harlequin phase.
    — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Elon Musk exulted in swinging his chainsaw.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
  • This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.
    — ABC News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Two Colombian drug dealers had just dismembered a man with a chainsaw and a second man was to meet the same fate.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Some joke the best way to prune Bradford pears is with a chainsaw — cut at a horizontal angle flush with the ground.
    — John Tufts, IndyStar, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Rescuers and resources such as trucks, water pumps and chainsaws were deployed from other counties.
    — ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • The chainsaw was a $500 Husqvarna bought just two weeks prior.
    — Mark Price november 11, Charlotte Observer, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The chainsaws were allegedly ordered on May 1.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Contacted by deputies, the person at the campground said that the suspect had charged at him while holding a running chainsaw.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
  • The two men had sent each other voice notes talking about the heaviness of the chainsaw and the amount of coverage that the crime was getting.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Use sharp garden clippers, loppers, or a small, handheld chainsaw to carefully prune away sections of the vine.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 8 June 2026
  • The two posed for photos next to a chainsaw, the talisman for Milei’s efforts to slash government.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The gory skit ends with the gruff older man rushing through the door to announce he’s made amends with his son, only to have his head sliced off by the flying chainsaw.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Twelves hooked up to a hydrant, and Alves grabbed a chainsaw off the rig to trim some of the trees along the houses as the fire backed down the hill toward them.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026

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