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How to use chop in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Chop means a cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib. Example: “I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.”

Examples of chop by meaning

nounA cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

  • I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
  • Of the two fried chops served him for breakfast he ate one and gave Edmund the other, and put a buttered sandwich of bread in his pocket against the accidents of travel.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 18
  • I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961

nounA blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.

  • It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.

nounA blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

  • A karate chop.

nounA hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.

  • With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.

verbTo cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

  • chop wood; chop an onion

verbTo sever with an axe or similar implement.

  • Chop off his head.

verbTo separate or divide.

  • We should chop off some of that department's budget.

verbTo stab.

  • A man had chopped a Sanitary Department coolie to death after an argument about money, Supreme Court was told today.1959 June 8, China Mail, page 10

More sentences with chop

  • Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.From the entry mince
  • Mowing the lawn and chopping the weeds topped his to-do list of chores.From the entry to-do list
  • Now add the diced ham to the mixture, then stir in the chopped celery.From the entry diced
  • And now I'm going to hit you with my karate chop! Take that!From the entry take that
  • In the final edit, the film was chopped down to two hours.From the entry chop down
  • Jim really put his head on the chopping block when he started flirting with the boss's daughter.From the entry chopping block
  • When she found out what happened, she chopped off the engagement.From the entry chop off
  • He was chopping a tomato to put in the salad.From the entry tomato
  • My eyes are stinging from the chopped onions.From the entry sting
  • He was looking for a knife to chop some steak.From the entry knife
  • Hot cross buns contain chopped candied fruit.From the entry candied
  • Apparently his stolen car had been taken to a chop shop, as the police only recovered the frame.From the entry chop shop
  • We hit a bad chop at the inlet.From the entry inlet
  • Fledglings can only be fed finely chopped meat.From the entry finely
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change.From the entry chop and change
  • They spent hours laboriously chopping wood with bluntish axes.From the entry bluntish
  • I have no idea what the aim of this project is any more, what with all this chopping and changing.From the entry chopping and changing
  • You have to chop out all the weeds.From the entry chop out
  • It's a machine to chop out cotton fields.From the entry chop out
  • We'll chop off sales from the marketing department.From the entry chop off
  • He chopped his way through the undergrowth.From the entry one's way
  • There may be a kernel of truth in the story of how George Washington confessed to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree.From the entry kernel of truth
  • The wind chopped up the lake.From the entry chop up
  • Our team might be on the chopping block — the company seems to be finding excuses to avoid funding these operating expenses.From the entry chopping block
  • Chopping onions makes my eyes water.From the entry water
  • That service is for the chop.From the entry for the chop
  • Beans, corn, and even chopped broccoli work not just as stand-ins but can elevate a meal.2025 February 3, Andrew Gray, “7 Tasty Green Peas Substitutes: Explore New Flavors”, in CooksCrafter. From the entry stand-in
  • Our attention spans have been chopped up and commodified, sold off piecemeal to platforms and algorithms.2023 June 21, A. O. Scott, “Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry commodify
  • If you’re feeling omelet-y, mix chopped celery leaves into whatever cheese you want in your omelet.2023, Tamar Adler, The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry omelet-y
  • The blades chopped the waterfall of cooked corn paste, spitting hot debris up into Dusty's fur.2021 August 31, Christian McKay Heidicker, Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City, Henry Holt and Company (BYR), →ISBN. From the entry shink

Meaning of chop

  1. noun A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
  2. noun A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
  3. noun A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

Full definition of chop

Questions about chop in a sentence

How do you use chop in a sentence?
Chop is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.”
What is a short sentence with chop?
“A karate chop.”
What does chop mean?
Chop means a cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chop (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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