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How to use hop in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Hop means a short jump. Example: “The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.”

Examples of hop by meaning

nounA short jump.

  • The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.

nounA short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.

  • My fellow passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing short hops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68

nounA brief period of development or progress.

  • For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television.

verbTo jump a short distance.

  • When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp....

verbTo be in state of energetic activity.

  • Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.
  • The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.

verbTo suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.

  • I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
  • He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.
  • He hopped a train to California.

verbTo jump onto, or over.

  • They hop the curb and cut their engines.2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security...
  • As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68

verbTo move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.

  • We were party-hopping all weekend.
  • We had to island-hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.

More sentences with hop

  • The combination of classical music and hip hop is a surprisingly good mix.From the entry mix
  • Hip hop always gets me psyched, so I put it on before a race.From the entry psych
  • Errors are more frequent when the play happens on an in-between hop.From the entry in-between hop
  • You could see in his eyes that he was hopped up on goofballs.From the entry hopped up
  • For brewing our bitters we only use pale malt, torrefied wheat, and hops.From the entry torrefied
  • The first baseman misplays the bunny hop, so all runners are safe.From the entry bunny hop
  • It's just a hop, skip, and a jump from the library.From the entry hop, skip, and a jump
  • You'd best hop to it if you want to arrive on time.From the entry hop to it
  • I channel hopped for half an hour before deciding nothing worth watching was on television.From the entry channel hop
  • I don't think you should hop on like those guys because it's harmful to your health.From the entry hop on
  • He started getting huge when he hopped on a course of steroids.From the entry hop on
  • The toy moved across the floor with flealike hops.From the entry flealike
  • The children rattled through their prayers and hopped into bed.From the entry rattle through
  • Don't let the cat hop up onto the kitchen counter!From the entry hop up
  • "Neon Gravestones" is a forlorn, slow-burning hip hop piano ballad.From the entry slow-burning
  • I'm pretty claustrophobic, so I didn't wanna hop in the elevator with them all packed like sardines in there.From the entry packed like sardines
  • (Music in a distinct style associated with an ethnicity.): Hungarians produce a lot of good rock and hip hop music, but it's their ethnic music that I find especially interesting.From the entry ethnic music
  • Nobody in the history of hip hop catch more strays than Tito Jackson.2021 June 2, @thoughtfulbae, Twitter, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2021. From the entry catch a stray
  • I hopped on one leg as it swung outward, carrying my boot.2019, Russ Linton, Plea Bargain. From the entry unstick
  • After grabbing a quick bite, they'd hopped a train and coursed along plunging grape-vined hills to Lausanne.2019, Amey Zeigler, The Swiss Mishap. From the entry grape-vined
  • Some, such as Kogaionids, probably laid eggs and hopped like frogs.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 25. From the entry kogaionid
  • Because both you and it can hop on a train to Nopeville,” Charlie replied.2017, Lenelle Lewis, Demons vs Angels, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN. From the entry Nopeville
  • Allsopp's was accused of supplementing hops in their brews with strychnine, a cheaper, more poisony alternative.2017, Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry poisony
  • Two costumed Easter Bunnies, handing out plastic, candy-filled eggs and hugging children, hopped in our ranks.2016, Richard J. Gonzales, “Conclusion”, in Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas, University of North Texas Press, →ISBN, page 287. From the entry Easter Bunny
  • With the Borogove's long legs, they hop and step over some incoming attacks.2015, Donald Weis, Monster Lore 2, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry borogove
  • Add Polish Lublin hops and you have the closest thing to the last historical Grodziskies.2015, Jeff Alworth, The Beer Bible, →ISBN, page 351. From the entry Grodziskie
  • Dunkels tend to be moderately hopped, made using dark malts, and offer malty, toffee, chocolate flavours.2014, Gavin D. Smith, Beer: A Global History (The Edible Series), Reaktion Books, →ISBN. From the entry dunkel

Meaning of hop

  1. noun A short jump.
  2. noun A jump on one leg.
  3. noun A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.

Full definition of hop

Questions about hop in a sentence

How do you use hop in a sentence?
Hop is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.”
What is a short sentence with hop?
“We were party-hopping all weekend.”
What does hop mean?
Hop means a short jump.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hop (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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