He utilized whatever was good in their existing habits and institutions, reformed what was imperfect, and lopped off what was evil.
It is said that some of its branches were lopped off to make furniture, and that the ancient tree then gradually withered and decayed.
Thus much we stopped Of babble that had else grown print: and lopped From your trim bay-tree this unsightly bough-- Smart's who translated Horace!
Thus I shoot up to surely get lopped down And bound up for the burning.
Many a knight have I taken, and once Sir Gawain himself hardly escaped, but he fought with Sir Gilbert and lopped off his hand, and so got away.
And drawing nearer Sir Launcelot saw that the dead man lay on a blood-stained mantle, his naked sword by his side, but that his left hand had been lopped off at the wrist by a mighty sword-cut.
The ancient Gothic portal and two bays falling to decay werelopped off in 1560.
The branches are lopped away, leaving literally the 'truncus' as the part of the tree out of which log and rafter can be cut.
As when the woodman’s axe has lopped A Śal branch in the grove, she dropped: So from the skies a Goddess falls Ejected from her radiant halls.
Here mountain forms of Vánars lay Whose heads and limbs were lopped away, Arms, legs and fingers strewed the ground, And severed heads lay thick around.
Ah me, my life is done to-day: My better arm is lopped away.
They are susceptible of pleasure and pain, and grow when cut or lopped off.
He should cause the branches of all the larger trees to be lopped off, but he should not touch the very leaves of those called Chaitya.
The thousand and one arms of Vana, less two, were loppedoff by Krishna.
For with the keen steel some were hewing beams, Some measuring planks, and some with axes lopped Branches away from trunks as yet unsawn: Each wrought his several work.
Accordingly, Jason took the branch at its word, and loppedit off the tree.
If they were shorter than the bed, he stretched their limbs to make them fit it; if they were longer than the bed, he lopped off a portion.
Eager to succor the damsel, she looked round for the means of facilitating the descent, and seeing a large elm with spreading branches she lopped off with her sword one of the largest, and thrust it into the opening.
The branches are then lopped off, and, with portions of the trunk, are heaped into a roughly constructed oven formed of quarried stone.
About April the branches are lopped off; numerous shoots from fruitful trees are grafted on the trunks, and in a very short space of time the tree is covered with succulent pods.
A pine lopped by his hand guides and steadies his footsteps.
And here he saw Deïphobus son of Priam, with face cruelly torn, face and both hands, and ears lopped from his mangled temples, and nostrils maimed by a shameful wound.
It was in a solitary Keekur tree, which originally of no great size had had all but two upright branches lopped away.
On the underpart all the limbs had been lopped off, but at each side of it the branches remained, stripped of leaves and twigs, sprouting out like the fins of a gigantic fish to right and left.
Before any could move Steinmetz strode into the hall, holding by the hair a human head lopped off at the neck, raggedly, the red drops falling on the floor as he walked.
A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
Defn: That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
Defn: A tree, the top of which has been lopped off.
Poetic] Two pulls at once; His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
If the Eastern Empire became Greek, it was because the un-Greek parts were lopped off from it.
Every year in the early spring, in August, very many are cut down, and when the trunk is lying on the ground, the crown of leaves is lopped off.
A branch as thick as a man's thigh is chosen in the early spring, and is cut off just beneath a group of these points, all the smaller branches are lopped off, and it is then placed about two feet deep in the ground.
After all, perhaps the thoughts of a royal wife-killing ruffian and tyrant, a dying boy king, and a fantastic virgin queen, affect me less than the sight of the old lopped trees.
For he took an oak-tree, and lopped the branches round about, and set it on a mound.
We've got to make all the haste we can, of course, but it won't help Miss Harding any if we rush into an ambush and get our heads lopped off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lopped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: butchered; castrated; docked; garbled; mangled; mutilated; truncated
