chipping

present participle of chip

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chipping
Verb
  • As consumers looked for other low-cost substitutes, prices rose for other types of slicing tomatoes and cherry tomatoes.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
  • Bake about 1 hour and 10 minutes until set, then cool before slicing.
    Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • With his second consecutive victory and third this season, Denny Hamlin now trails Tyler Reddick by only 51 points, chopping 78 points off the margin in the past three seasons.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 June 2026
  • Hold Cutting Boards In Place Some cutting boards are quite slick on top of counters, which is both unsafe and inconvenient when chopping food.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Severance star Zach Cherry hit the Deadline Studio at SXSW London this week with director Jason James to discuss genre-mashing romcom-thriller-noir All Night Wrong which premiered at the festival.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 June 2026
  • The 20-year-old infielder is also capable of mashing against both right- and left-handed pitching.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • If the story of the past two years was one of slow, grinding forward progress for Russia,the story of this year is very different.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 June 2026
  • Nine crucial years of expansion and solidification of the pernicious institution went by, speeding the nation’s road toward a grinding war.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Moore is the grating living embodiment of the delusions of the managerial-artistic class.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 23 May 2026
  • The traditional dish is laplap, made by grating cassava or taro, mixing it with coconut milk, wrapping it in banana leaves and slow-cooking it over hot stones in an earthen oven.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
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“Chipping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chipping. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.

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