How to Use chipper in a Sentence

chipper

1 of 2 noun

• It’s been put through the wood chipper.
  — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2026
• One man cut down felled trees and shredded them in a wood chipper.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2018
• Bond traders haven’t been feeling this chipper for a long time.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2019
• Time to toss this week in the wood chipper and move on to better things.
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019
• Tiger is once again one of the five best chippers/pitchers in the world.
  — SI.com, 13 June 2018
• So one of the counters to that is, let’s chip and get those chippers out in routes.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• Send him a chipper text wishing him a special day.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
• What did the chipper spring breaker say to his beach buddies?
  — Country Living, 31 Mar. 2023
• Completely popped up, ready to go, ready to chat, all chipper.
  — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 8 Oct. 2025
• The two times the Padres won a pennant, they got fed into a wood chipper.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
• In less creative hands, the squares and triangles would be doomed to the chipper.
  — Joanne Cleaver, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• Count on a decent wine list and chipper, knowledgeable staff.
  — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 11 July 2018
• The show has spent a lot of time on male intimacy, and our chipper hero needs to be close to his son.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• In fact, Johnson said the city had to rent a chipper recently due to need.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 23 June 2021
• The men were driving a company truck with an attached wood chipper.
  — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
• Volunteers can help process debris by moving it to the brush chipper.
  — courant.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• There are many ways to break it up, ranging from using strictly hand tools to renting a wood chipper.
  — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 8 Jan. 2026
• Timony said crews plan to go through with a chipper in the coming weeks to breakdown the wood.
  — James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• But benthic dwellers are difficult to haul up to the surface alive, let alone chipper.
  — Sabrina Imbler, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• The chipper spewed out a high-speed stream into a truck bound for a nearby Enviva mill.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• Reportedly, the machine fell off the jack onto the man while two men were working on the wood chipper.
  — Layla McMurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2022
• The scraper end features a flat blade with a chipper on its side that splits the ice into more manageable sections.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2021
• His famous chipper tone belies the intense prophecy.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
• But in the premiere, his relentless enthusiasm and chipper choice to cheat won me over.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
• Some may cheerfully proclaim that working from home is here to stay, while others are a lot less chipper about the notion.
  — Max Hansen, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• That cut down the number of blue-chippers who reveal their college choices on Wednesday.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• Similar at running back after the one true blue-chipper in Jeremiyah Love.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
• The landowner was far less chipper now, in his room, the back of the bed cranked up, ice water and green Jell-O at his side.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• The Sixers have Markelle Fultz, who could be the blue-chipper the Spurs could covet.
  — Charles Curtis, For The Win, 5 July 2018
• The second card is designed for outdoor use and includes can and bottle openers, a saw, a fire starter, a wood chipper, and even a fork.
  — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 15 June 2026

chipper

2 of 2 adjective

• She greeted me in a chipper voice.
• My, you're looking chipper this morning.
• Say goodbye to that chipper grin and say hello to tears at your desks.
  — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2017
• The elderly men on the flight to Missoula were way too chipper with their fishing rods.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2018
• In another instance, a truck and wood chipper were reported stolen.
  — Jennifer James, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2019
• Try to snag a counter seat at Lucienne, which has a fresh, chipper décor unlike anything else in town.
  — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
• Orosz claimed earlier that he had been fired after taking a city truck and an attached wood chipper home on lunch break to clear brush near his house.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• From Home, Holland is a fun member of a chipper teen ensemble.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 24 June 2018
• Free food provided by Amtrak has been served by crew members eager to help maintain the chipper morale.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2019
• Some residents are placing paper bagged yard waste and chipper material in the street.
  — baltimoresun.com, 5 July 2019
• The chipper tone of the tweet, which seemed to be prescheduled and has since been deleted, was wildly out of tune with Equifax’s massive blunder.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2017
• My son is restless and chipper, his sister feverish, unmotivated even to stand.
  — Reid Doughten, Longreads, 22 Sep. 2017
• The legs of rear-seat passengers won’t be as chipper, however, as the front seats intrude into their space, leaving less than three feet of legroom.
  — Car and Driver, 7 Mar. 2018
• The lady at Counter 11 was helpful, chipper, and the transaction was quick and painless.
  — Sainted & Tainted Writers, Twin Cities, 8 June 2019
• Smaller materials break down much quicker, so use a chipper shredder or mower if needed.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 16 June 2017
• In the video, Mazooji shows off some unexpectedly chipper dance moves for someone pulling an all-nighter.
  — Evelyn Wang, CNT, 25 Sep. 2017
• The city will not take rocks, piles of dirt, sod, plastic pots, plastic bags, food waste or gravel, as these items cannot be put through the county's chipper machinery.
  — Ann Norman, cleveland.com, 24 May 2017
• The result is a new sort of indie rock that is chipper, rinky-dink, self-consciously handmade with discount-store melodies and neon attitude.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
• Brianna Dodson brings winningly bright notes to the chipper Bradley.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The young baseball players who gathered at the Lockport dome one recent Friday night seemed chipper enough when the game began.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The allure of his show comes with the reactions of his famous guests, who often break down and show a very different side than their usual chipper selves on the talk-show circuit.
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• Meanwhile, a host of overly chipper employees in blue aprons gave tours of the store’s wares based on con-goers’ personal plans for Purge Night.
  — Devon Maloney, The Verge, 23 July 2018
• But, when Lillian talks with Anna’s brother, Don, Lillian sounds chipper and content.
  — Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
• She's tasked with both defeating Ares and stopping the war outside Themyscira—not exactly chipper stuff.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2017
• For a man who spent much of his career learning at the knee of Mourinho, Lampard’s style is unexpectedly chipper.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2020
• An alarm clock sounds, a chipper Victoria Jaiani enters, humming, carrying clothes for her real-life husband.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Either way, talking about the tournament seemed to change Altman's mood into what could be best described as, relatively speaking, chipper.
  — Tyson Alger, OregonLive.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• Ron, Bern and Tom Dusing all began working in the shop in their teens, picking up blocks of ice with metal tongs and throwing them into the ice chipper to be bagged.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2017
• The latter showed no ill effects from Saturday’s wedding festivities — bright-eyed and chipper, even charmingly eating a tomato that had dropped on the ground.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 22 May 2017
• Despite being known for his hearty smile on camera, the chipper 64-year-old journalist struggled with his weight behind the scenes early on in his Today career.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2018