How to Use chop shop in a Sentence

chop shop

noun
  • Put the brakes on it, take off the wheels, and cut it up at a chop shop.
    — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
  • One time the owner of a chop shop hit Jewett over the head with a bike fork.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • One time, the chop shop made brownies out of beets, according to Avner.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In 2004 he was arrested for a slew of car thefts and running a chop shop.
    — al, 29 Jan. 2020
  • For money, Georgie and Ali steal bicycles and sell them to some kind of bike chop shop.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Mike Tyson is playing an arms-dealing, chop shop–owning gangster.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 May 2022
  • When the volunteers arrive at the chop shop, there is a process for preparing the food, just like any other kitchen.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Anyone with information about the chop shop is asked to contact the department.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2021
  • More suspects are being looked into in connection with the chop shop, Ponce said, and more arrests may come.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Seth finds success there but also realizes that his firm is a chop shop that essentially scams investors.
    — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The agency also contends with bicycle chop shops and other sources of detritus.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2019
  • But that doesn’t mean street crime — such as bicycle chop shops, theft, drug dealing and harassing pedestrians — is OK.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Anyone who would like to donate food to the chop shop can do so by contacting Tikkun Ha-Ir and scheduling a drop-off time.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Dunkins pleaded guilty to the three counts in exchange for having two third-degree burglary charges and an additional operating chop shop charge dropped.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Last year, the chop shop gathered over 20,000 pounds of food and served over 6,000 meals, according to their website.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • One set of photos provided by a de-miner show how the group set up an open-air chop shop to cut open unexploded American aircraft bombs and remove the explosive inside.
    — John Ismay, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and C. J. Chivers, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Garcia was detained and later arrested on two counts of grand theft auto, one count of owning or aiding in operating a chop shop, and one count of forging or altering a vehicle title, according to his arrest report.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
  • During his long exile in France, Tin lived in a public-housing project in a neighborhood full of auto chop shops, phone stores and corner groceries selling spices and other foods from France’s old colonial empire.
    — Thomas A. Bass, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
  • But in 2023, after buying three cars from the impound lot, Lusk was indicted and charged with three counts of theft of a motor vehicle and violations of Tennessee’s chop shop laws.
    — Lucas Finton, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Stephanie Grambsch, who is also incarcerated at MWCC, visited the chop shop as a volunteer for the first time in September.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Wiener defended Sheehy and pointed to the supervisor’s legislative accomplishments, including a law to discourage bicycle chop shops.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018
  • What started with a chop shop bust in Doral took investigators to an Allapattah building with a 70-year-old auto tag agency and a clerk accused of running a $3 million car title fraud.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • The chop shop is a meal program that runs from July to October and partners with organizations and institutions like MWCC and other volunteers from the area.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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