How to Use chop down in a Sentence

chop down

verb
  • Braving the cold to chop down the perfect Christmas tree.
    — Jackie Borchardt, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Most of these places, however, require a permit to chop down a tree.
    — Ali Besharat, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Most of these places, however, require a permit to chop down a tree.
    — Ali Besharat, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025
  • True enough, though this is largely a measure of how much estimates were chopped down in the first third of the year.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Ongoing court battle Dozens of trees will be chopped down during each phase of the project.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • For one of the opening shots, Veloso rigged a camera onto a tree right before it was chopped down.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Some fruit and chestnut trees were chopped down near a kindergarten in Odate so that bears would not be attracted by the food.
    — Peter Guo, NBC news, 31 Dec. 2025
  • O'Herrin notes that chopping down the offending tree is not going solve your issue in the long term.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
  • As trees were chopped down in Tennessee, the forests slowly became quieter.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
  • For a little less mess when chopping broccoli florets, hold them upside down on your cutting board (stem side up) and chop down.
    — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Joshua Trees were chopped down in Joshua Tree National Park.
    — Graham Averill, Outside, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Legend says that George Washington once chopped down his father's cherry tree.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That would likely involve chopping down the time between cloture and confirmation votes to a fraction of the current time.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Sayah points out an area where hundreds of pine trees were chopped down while Israel occupied the village in 2024.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Annabeth is struck by an arrow, while Allison tries to chop down Thalia’s tree to let the other monsters in for backup.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The trailer features stunning visuals of forests and mountain vistas, with massive trees that stay majestic even when they are being chopped down.
    — Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The trailer features stunning visuals of forests and mountain vistas, with massive trees that stay majestic even when they are being chopped down.
    — Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Obviously, there’s the physicality of having someone who lived during that time and who would be out there in the woods, chopping down trees, building railroads.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Joshua Trees -- which are slow to grow -- were chopped down at Joshua Tree National Park in California.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The association appears to stem from the famous, but fictional, story of Washington chopping down a cherry tree as a child.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 14 Feb. 2026
  • French leaders are condemning vandals who chopped down a tree honoring a Jewish man who was kidnapped and tortured for over three weeks before dying on the way to a hospital.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The university built a gigantic Algerian flag on the grass outside the Lied Center, chopping down some weeds to make room.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026
  • At Joshua Tree National Park in California, multiple Joshua trees, which can be more than a century old, were chopped down.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Prune with a Light Hand Conventional wisdom used to recommend a wholesale fall cleanup for gardens, chopping down perennials and pruning shrubs to keep things tidy before next year’s growth.
    — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York.
    — Joe Murphy, NBC news, 3 Dec. 2025
  • This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York.
    — Jamie Knodel, NBC news, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The letter reminded Burgum of the damage done when parks stayed open during past shutdowns, during which people pooped on roadsides in Yosemite, chopped down Joshua trees, and poached a pregnant elk in Zion.
    — Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Local officials, along with reputable arborists like McCullough, decry the tactics of some tree services that will go door-to-door in neighborhoods, trying to convince homeowners to chop down trees that could probably be saved.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But the Harvard and Cornell grad chopped down his Alphabet holding by nearly 30%, a reversal after notably expanding his position in the prior quarter.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025
  • In this one, the Lakers nonchalantly dug a 26-point hole but cared enough in the second half to chop down the deficit to 93-91, on a one-footed fadeaway 3-pointer from Luka Doncic.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026

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