I tell all my friends, 'If you don't have your pet chipped, you better.
Perhaps more important, contractionary policy in Europe and emerging Asia chipped away at global demand for American exports.
In this history of the world that I'm trying to tell through 'things', this chipped stone from Africa - from modern Tanzania - is where it all begins.
As she did, I tried to keep an open mind and not be distracted by her chipped, hot-pink manicure or the too few teeth she revealed as she spoke.
But their routes are chipped!
Some of the enamel on this pan is chipped off.
The housing boom had chipped away one pillar of Ireland’s appeal: its low costs.
Up the pavement ahead of me, dogs doze in the sun as children run backforth across the otherwise empty road's chipped asphalt.
He liked the exotic water pipe so much that he chipped in to buy one for his fraternity house, where he says it makes a useful social lubricant at parties.
Certainly, chipped ID CARDS speed things up at borders.
The Federal Reserve also chipped in with more largesse in its emergency lending program for investment banks.
Imitation Queen Anne furniture, chipped and scarred by cigarette burns, a plush purple carpet in which rodents could reproduce, and the king-size, four-poster bed were the same as his honeymoon night.
The clay Buddha has chipped off.
Just like classmates across the country, they all chipped in to buy a classmate a birthday gift.
But for better or worse, the old idea that "religious workers" -to use more modern language-belong in a legal and metaphysical category all of their own is being chipped away.
But it has enacted few bold reforms and even chipped away at earlier ones.
She chipped one of my best glasses.
It also oversaw a huge business empire, since partially dismantled, and was guaranteed enough seats in the parliament to ensure its privileges could not be chipped away.
is looking so chipped, scuffed and scratched that even the best varnish can’t do much for its appearance - why not spray paint it?
When Hank Paulson, now America's treasury secretary, was boss of Goldman Sachs, he was persuaded to raise the amount that the firm chipped in to boost employees' charitable donations.
Tongue piercings have also been associated with infections, chipped or broken teeth, and gum trauma.
It looks like a large, chipped grey cobble.
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