Learn English Phrasal Verbs in Use: Health, Crime, in the Kitchen, Environment and Animals.
E.g: I was going to go bungee jumping but I chickened out at the last minute.
E.g: If I can I'll duck out to get something to eat.
E.g: The telephone caller was fishing for too much information, so I hung up.
E.g: He was horsing around in the kitchen and broke my favorite bowl.
E.g: He's leeching off the abilities of others.
E.g: Kids tend to pig out on junk food.
E.g: Don't wolf down an entire chocolate cake; you will get indigestion.
E.g: We just monkeyed around all afternoon.
E.g: She was beavering away at his homework until after midnight.
E.g: I had to ferret out all the information for myself.
E.g: She baked off the cakes in the oven.
E.g: The soup's almost boiled away.
E.g: Spinach tends to boil down a lot.
E.g: The milk was boiling over on the stove behind her.
E.g: She bolted down her lunch and rushed back to work.
E.g: Sarah was busy chopping up onions.
E.g: You should cut the tops off the carrots first.
E.g: She cut several pieces of pastry out.
E.g: He cut the pie up into little pieces.
E.g: Do you feel like eating out tonight?
E.g: Eat up! We've got to go out soon.
E.g: Let's fry some chicken up for dinner.
E.g: Most of the time he just picks at his food.
E.g: Kids pigging out on junk food and soda.
E.g: She sliced off a piece of sausage.
E.g: She whipped up a delicious lunch for us in 15 minutes.
E.g: Whole villages were wiped out by the earthquake.
E.g: A plastic pot may take more than a million years to be broken down.
E.g: The British Army intends to scale back on its use of petrol-driven vehicles and soon we may seeing British soldiers going to war on bicycles.
E.g: We've already used up earth's resources for 2016.
E.g: Don't throw away your grass clippings; leave them on your lawn.
E.g: What will we do when we run out of gas?
E.g: This species has nearly died out because its habitat is being destroyed.
E.g: Because our population is so densely concentrated, a new disease like bird flu can spread out very quickly after the first case has appeared.
E.g: We won't have to rely on power companies if we use solar and wind power instead.
E.g: Someone broke into my car and stole the radio.
E.g: Three men have broken out of a top-security jail.
E.g: Two men were arrested after police were tipped off about the raid.
E.g: Detectives had been staking out the house for several weeks.
E.g: Two men were brought in for questioning.
E.g: Rapists should be locked up.