Verb (used with object) : We had to lop off whole pages of the report before presenting it to the committee. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : a rabbit lopping through the garden. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : lop ears. From Dictionary.com.
Luckily, the system fell apart when the head of this confederacy of dunces was lopped from the shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Top Ten Movie Villains of All Time | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference
With a solid strike his sword lopped off one of the screeling's arms. From Wordnik.com. [Stone of Tears]
Some with lopped heads: so says the Geste of France. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
To writhe, then, with his tongue and ears, both lopped. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom, Truth and Beauty] Reference
If the limb be unworthy and unsound, let it be lopped off. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
A pine lopped by his hand guides and steadies his footsteps. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
With lugging uphill these lopped branches of the olive-tree. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
It's almost as if some part of us had been lopped off, isn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [General Max Shorter] Reference
Some had branches lopped short to prevent them coming over the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
The assassins had not only lopped the branches but had uprooted the tree. From Wordnik.com. [For The Admiral] Reference
Accordingly, Jason took the branch at its word and lopped it off the tree. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
In place of tents, their hand axes lopped off a brush shelter in short order. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
Using his sword two-handed, Barrent lopped off vines; others grew in their place. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
So I lopped off his head and reworked the creation by adding a heart to his sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [The Last VooDoo Doll] Reference
The tree fallen, its branches are lopped, its purple trunk is shortened into lengths. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
From the 2007 top, the housing sector, alone, has lopped 4 percentage points off GDP. From Wordnik.com. [Bernanke's Fed Full Of Blind Mice] Reference
(Gen.iii. 14), the ministering angels descended and lopped off his hands and his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
As he fled down the hill he saw below an old oak tree whose first branches had been lopped off. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
Cuchulain lopped off an oak that was before him in that place and set an ogam-writing on its side. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
I judiciously cut here and there until I had lopped £55m off this year's £2. 2bn spending total. From Wordnik.com. [Society daily 10.08.2010] Reference
Numerous trees lopped of their branches were still standing, while many others were lying on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference
They had tallies, consisting of sprigs lopped from a fruit-bearing tree, marked in a particular manner, thrown into. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
When the tree is about two years old the top branches are lopped off for the purpose of throwing the sap into the bean. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Again: we profess to have lopped from our democratic tree the old-world customs of hereditary title and patrimonial honor. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
They saw they were fighting a hydra; for as fast as they lopped off heads in any direction, fresh ones sprang up in others. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Its glow was on the eastern sky, however, and at length it appeared, a broken orb with its waning side lopped from its bulk. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
With one powerful stroke, even hampered as he was by the heavy medium in which he operated, Koku lopped off one of the legs. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic] Reference
After the tree was felled it had to be cut off again at the right length, the branches lopped off, and one end rudely sharpened. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
It's a theatrical version of the BBC miniseries "Planet Earth," only with the grisly parts lopped out to make it family friendly. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Wild Things Die] Reference
Step 4: The bottoms of the refrigerators are lopped off with a reciprocating saw, exposing their polyurethane foam-insulation walls. From Wordnik.com. [Ever wonder what happens to appliances you get rid of? Take a visit to a facility where JACO "demanufactures" appliances] Reference
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