chop
Example Sentences
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The wrist camera captures how every muscle moves as they chop vegetables, season and grill chicken and roll up their shawarmas.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
Less successful was Morgan’s early call to replace a chicken-and-rib combo with a photo of a double pork chop to a prominent position on the menu flap.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Now make the briny engine: chop green olives very finely, almost relish-like, and do the same with artichoke hearts: small, but not paste.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026
Those for the chop were "characterised by extremely advanced age, decades of human intervention, planting in restricted spaces and on land made unstable by extreme climatic events", the council said.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
Roosevelt craved a mutton chop with a tail to it; Kermit was hungry for strawberries and cream; and Cherrie couldn’t stop thinking about pancakes smothered in maple syrup.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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