Blades chopping straw.

Mattocks chopping clay.

Chopping wood for camp, that's funny.

Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks

chopping kindlin' and toting' water for her.

He gave up, quit, went back to chopping cotton.

I'm broke, though, so I'll pay you by chopping wood.

All that chopping of wood has made his hands tough and strong.

You did all this chopping' and work out of sheer goodness, boy?

See the game and understand, Lakha. It's not like chopping wood, you know.

Don't know his name, but there's a fella in back chopping' wood for his breakfast.

Well, about a year ago I was chopping that tree when suddenly it began to rain.

Chink, you put that man to chopping some wood and then take care of the stock.

The first time we gave him a knife so he could start chopping some vegetables, and all that.

Organic chemists make molecules, very complicated molecules, by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules and reverse engineering.

Organic chemists make molecules, very complicated molecules, by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules and reverse engineering.

Seven little Indian boys chopping up some sticks till one chopped himself in half and then there were six.

Creating cellulose based ethanol means first unwrapping that protective sheath and then chopping up the cellulose into its individual glucose molecule.

Opinion surveys suggest that Americans want to maintain many of the discretionary domestic programs schools, hospitals, transportation infrastructure, recreational parks, etc. that are now on the chopping block in budget negotiations.

William Burroughs coins the term heavy metal in the novel The Soft Machine, a book composed using the cut up technique, taking existing writing and literally chopping it up and rearranging it.

A developed nation cannot meet carbon emission targets by outsourcing its dirtiest production to a developing country, and a developing country cannot meet its targets by chopping down forests to build the plants or expand low productivity agriculture.

So when the British came to terms with this harsh reality, they played out the lamentable end game of their management of the negotiations with small minded cheese paring and logic chopping offers, all designed primarily to safeguard narrow British interests, mainly at the expense of the new member states.