How to Use chop off in a Sentence

chop off

verb
  • That is why Cirie called him the head of the snake that needed to be chopped off.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The time is never right to severely chop off your crape myrtle.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The time is never right to severely chop off your crape myrtle.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026
  • But the night ends in a bloody disaster when Nate is beaten up and has his toe chopped off.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 June 2026
  • Watching that wrecking ball take down the East Wing last month was like chopping off my left arm.
    — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Wash parsnips thoroughly before cooking, chop off the top and end, and peel the outer layer.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 8 May 2026
  • Worst of all, Veronica Cartwright had to chop off most of her long, beautiful hair.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
  • To go with her new gal on the go lifestyle, she's chopped off her iconic perm in favor of a whimsical, shaggy pixie cut.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Juniper had chopped off her golden-blonde locks—once past her shoulders—into a short bob at the front with uneven chunks missing from her fringe.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Modern Mullet Anyone else thinking of chopping off their hair these days?
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Last week, Amal debuted a new fall hairstyle, chopping off 8 inches to ring in the season.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The week prior, Amal debuted a new fall hairstyle, chopping off 8 inches to ring in the season.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Local media showed videos of barber shops with lines out the door as students chopped off their locks, with some offering specials to take advantage of the new order.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The Biebers' newest holiday photo may not show it, but Hailey also chopped off her hair just days before Christmas.
    — Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Morticia, however, disrupted the process by chopping off Isaac’s hand, leading the machine to blow up and kill Isaac.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • While King's book is ostensibly more graphic (Annie chops off one of his feet), the hobbling is arguably more disturbing.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
  • There is one hint of the bloodbath to come, as the film opens in Osaka, where a yakuza boss insists that three of his men chop off a digit of their hands in order to prove their loyalty.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Casimir said the plates would act as a kind of guillotine for the electromagnetic field, chopping off long-wavelength oscillations in a way that would skew the zero-point energy.
    — George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Collectors chuckle at the lack of an ‘h’ in the Pittsburg across his chest, but Pittsburgh city officials had chopped off the ‘h,’ replacing it a few years later.
    — Marin Independent Journal, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Ultimately, the story they’re told and believe is that Nicky showed up angry, wielding a meat cleaver, and then Jay stepped up trying to be a hero, and his finger got chopped off.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
  • As the executive chef at Koya, an udon bar in London, Yamasaki cooked live eels, whose bodies could remain jumpy and unwieldy even once their heads had been chopped off.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Turning the sophisticated Ferrari Roma coupe into its Spider variant involved more than simply chopping off its roof.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Kim Kardashian chopped off several inches of her hair for the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party on Sunday night.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026
  • In January, Bohler was arrested for allegedly chopping off four fingers of a dog owner in broad daylight, according to the Daily News.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • It should be noted that 2025 brought a dramatic change in this department for Clooney, who chopped off 8 inches of her hair with her go-to glam Dimitris Giannetos.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The Mercedes was again slow away and fell behind Leclerc, while Verstappen dropped his Red Bull exiting Turn 1 — having brutally chopped off Norris’ good start.
    — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • The clip also gives fans a first look at an army being formed by Vilgefortz (Mahesh Jadu), while the rest of the trailer offers a glimpse of an all-out war — with Geralt wielding his sword, chopping off hands and dropping f-bombs in the process.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The passage of Proposition 50 means each will see their current House districts redrawn to various degrees, adding in blue precincts and chopping off reliably GOP-voting precincts.
    — David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Given no choice, María Ángeles acquiesces to her daughter’s wishes and moves into the seniors’ home, where a hilarious exchange with a hairdresser wanting to chop off her long silver tresses typifies her iron-willed refusal to settle in.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Wednesday sets out to stop Isaac from doing the same to Pugsley, but in the process, Isaac captures Thing (Victor Dorobantu) — revealing that Thing was originally his hand, which Morticia had chopped off — and buries Wednesday alive.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025

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