CHIP in a Sentence

Learn CHIP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

44 example sentences for CHIP, such as:

1. He's gone to get some fish and chips.
2. They chip in for the petrol and food.
3. He's got a chip on his shoulder today.
4. Like a chip on a dreary pond, she felt.
5. Avoid unhealthy foods such as hamburger and chips.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chip
 v.  cut small pieces from; diminish or reduce to shape; break or crack
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Scarlett seemed demure and sweet enough these days, but there was a pleased complacency in her eyes which annoyed people and she carried a chip on her shoulder which no one cared to disturb.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  And if Will Benteen can't make a go of the cotton, I'm willing to chip in and help out on that white elephant in Clayton County that you love so much.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
3  Not a chip of the boat was harmed, nor a hair of any oarsman's head; but the mate for ever sank.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
4  But Napoleon came and swept him aside, unconscious of his existence, as he might brush a chip from his path, and his Bald Hills and his whole life fell to pieces.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIV
5  Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a machine whose action he did not understand but which was working well.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER X
6  Now it would roll on its back, yelping with delight, now bask in the sun with a thoughtful air of importance, and now frolic about playing with a chip of wood or a straw.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
7  Like a chip on a dreary pond, she felt.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
8  Holmes held out a small chip with the letters NN and a space of clear wood after them.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
9  The stranger shoved in all his chips and followed with the deed to his plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Gerald shoved in all his chips and laid on top of them his wallet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Every morning he went out importantly with a basket to pick up twigs and chips to start the fires with.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
12  The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
13  It was full of little brown chips that looked like the shavings of some root.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
14  She threw the package into the stove, but I bit off a corner of one of the chips I held in my hand, and chewed it tentatively.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
15  Here and there were officers carried along on the stream like exasperated chips.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Instead of an outright coup attempt, the rebels want to chip away at her authority.
2  The computer chip compresses and decompresses a colour image in less than a second.
3  They chip in for the petrol and food.
4  Polly fell and knocked a chip out of her front tooth.
5  Feel free to chip in if I've forgotten to mention anything.
6  He's got a chip on his shoulder today.
7  A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.
8  Advances in chip technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip.
9  The snow stopped and they began to chip ice from the windows.
10  None should clone the computer chip in an electronic passport.
11  Avoid unhealthy foods such as hamburger and chips.
12  He put the pile of chips in the center of the table and drew a card.
13  The children seem to exist on a diet of burgers and chips.
14  He's gone to get some fish and chips.
15  Fish and chips became a national institution in Britain.