Chopped Up

First Creation is beyond the chopped-up markings of time. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

She used real ham, not that chopped-up swill sold in the 7-Eleven, and she browned her onions because I liked them that way. ❋ T.J. Forrester (2011)

Every chopped-up joint of cane that floats downstream can sprout another stand. ❋ The Media Consortium (2011)

The Envision team devised plans that converted this formerly closed-in and chopped-up colonial into an open and airy contemporary. ❋ Trish Donnally (2010)

"Gather my leaves and all my minerals, fix myself a bowl of vegetables, ice cold water and chopped-up fruits, gonna be a long day so I throw on my boots …" Who's in? ❋ Rob Fitzpatrick (2010)

At about 2 a.m. on a November night, a former hedge fund manager named Donald Longueuil allegedly left his apartment in Manhattan with fragments of chopped-up hard drives tucked in his jacket. ❋ David S. Hilzenrath (2011)

So I chopped-up what I had of hazelnuts, walnuts and dried Medjool dates -- just a handful of each. ❋ Rosie DeQuattro (2011)

BTW, did you know that hamburgers made with chopped-up kimchee are delicious – especially grilled – and that turkey burgers with kimchee are even better? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The secret to his version is combining uptown and downhome tastes: He uses crème fraîche and smoked paprika, blends it all with chopped-up jarred pimentos and spreads it on brioche. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There was a Federico Garcia Lorca-like tableau involving extremely long wigs, chopped-up apples and uncomfortable male nudity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Scientists in Holzkirchen, Germany, are using a chopped-up jetliner to measure how much worse it gets. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So when he goes off-piste, as in his homage to the Georgian avant-garde sound artist Natalie Beridze, which is halfway to stretched-out, chopped-up prose, you can still feel you're in safe hands, which is all the more of an achievement if you've never hitherto heard of Ms Beridze or her work, which I confess I hadn't. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I lowered my face to my hands in a belly-wash of sadness and squeezed my eyes to blackness, striving for the dullness my ears had found but brilliant flashes of my old life splashed across the black like a crazy, chopped-up movie running double-fast. ❋ Unknown (2010)