chop-chop

Example Sentences

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“It was just chop, chop, chop,” Canady said.

From Washington Times • Apr. 5, 2020

So you haven't anymore got that chop chop chop of the keys – you've got an almost silent process so you can hear the rhythm in your head better.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2011

She weeded the fields carefully with her hoe—chop, chop, chop.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

“Go long chop chop, soon lilly pijjin come down topside.”

From Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea by Overend, William Heysham

Even now their only tools are a felling-axe, a hatchet, and a small adze; and there they sit, chop, chop, chopping, for three, six, or nine months it may be, until the house is finished.

From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George