chipping

present participle of chip

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chipping
Verb
  • Let stand until glaze firms up, about 15 minutes, before slicing and serving.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The line will run along the Interstate 15 corridor, slicing through the San Bernardino Mountains and across the desert.
    Ben Jones, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The top streamer surprised supporters with an appearance from legendary hitmaker Mariah Carey as the two spent a fun evening chopping it up and entertaining his viewers together.
    Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This year’s annual cast-trimming seems to have struck some fans particularly hard, what with the popular Walker, Longfellow, Emil Wakim and Heidi Gardner among producer Lorne Michaels’ chopping-block heads.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • There’s no time to get your bearings; an EDM drop smashes everything to pieces, then a pained voice croons in the rubble while drunkenly mashing a detuned guitar.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 27 Aug. 2025
  • That includes mashing three home runs in 24 games since returning to Lake Elsinore after missing more than two months to a left quad strain.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, the army became bogged down in a grinding war of attrition, and the West was stunned by Moscow’s poor battlefield performance.
    David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Although Moscow's ground forces are being chewed up in the grinding war in Ukraine's east, Russia has wound up its defense industry to backfill its constant equipment losses and regular strikes across Ukraine.
    Ellie Cook — reporting from Prague, Czech Republic, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Even the normally surefire element of a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, with its blasts of dissonance pumping up the squirm factor, adds to the heavy-going effect of a movie that seems to go out of its way to be grating.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But watching their unfinished work sit among the swells is grating, Crowley said.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Chipping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chipping. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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