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How to use hopping in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Hopping means hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent. Example: “Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).”

Examples of hopping by meaning

nounHop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.

  • Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).

More sentences with hopping

  • It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.From the entry peculiar
  • The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.From the entry hop
  • He was hopping mad when he came home and discovered that she had bought a new car without consulting him.From the entry hopping mad
  • Acme Inc was our best customer, but they're hopping mad now. They're bouncing off the walls over there.From the entry bounce off the walls
  • Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from cache to cache on their return journey.From the entry cache
  • For us, the best motivator for hopping on a stairmaster is cute workout clothes.2022 February 10, Justine Carreon, “25 High-Waisted Leggings To Make You Look And Feel Like A Fitfluencer”, in Elle, archived from the…. From the entry fitfluencer
  • Those latte macchiatos I guzzled to stay alert while hopping time zones?2017, Kristin Rockaway, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Traveling the World: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Center Street, Hachette Book Group, →ISBN…. From the entry latte macchiato
  • The beneficial effects of base-station densification, highly directional sectorization, and frequency hopping are illustrated.2015, Don Torrieri, Salvatore Talarico, Matthew C. Valenti, “Performance Analysis of Fifth-Generation Cellular Uplink”, in arXiv. From the entry sectorization
  • Some birds start hopping around and looking for food within seconds of hatching.2014, Jim Davies, Riveted, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry altricious
  • Spy hopping is a very clever and controlled behavior carried out by whales.2012, James Doyle, A Young Scientist's Guide to Defying Disasters with Skill & Daring, Gibbs Smith, page 142. From the entry spy hopping
  • The Bahamian resort had been hopping with hot to trot studs and studettes.2011, Judith Arnold, Father Found. From the entry studette
  • A monoped can move only by hopping, which consists of alternating flight and stance phases.2007, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control. From the entry monoped
  • John's chosen character is Xianghua, a slight swordstress who specializes in hopping around and skewering people.2004 August, Luke Dittrich, “Play Money”, in Atlanta, page 35. From the entry swordstress
  • Spy hopping is a term to describe a whale raising its head vertically out of the water.2002, The Irish Naturalists' Journal, volume 27, page 189. From the entry spy hopping
  • Congress has been hopping mad and the U.N.-haters have been on a tear.2001 May 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Foreign Affairs: 95 to 5”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Aug 2015. From the entry on a tear
  • I'm now in AdSeg because I beat those idiots in court and they are hopping mad.1986 April 19, Gene Munnings, “Maryland Area Readers and Lawyers: N.B.!”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry ad-seg
  • When the feedback increases further, longitudinal mode hopping or incomplete multimodes appear.1985, Semiconductors and Semimetals, page 80. From the entry multimode
  • You are a comic little figure, hopping from the cradle to the grave.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry life
  • Scary-looking rabbits were hopping around Fort Collins.2025 August 14, Angela Haupt, “What to Know About the Horned ‘Zombie’ Rabbits Hopping Around Colorado”, in TIME. From the entry growth
  • Ya'd wobble through the car park, hopping off the cars.2013 March 15, “The Shopping Trolley” (track 10), in Horsing Around, performed by Richie Kavanagh. From the entry jar
  • So come on, follow me on my café-hopping journey.2012 August 28, Natalie Koh, “Café Hopping in Melbourne”, in ladyironchef, retrieved 31 Oct 2015. From the entry cafe-hopping
  • We saw a frog and she eeked in terror again from the sight of it hopping near her.2011, Isaac E. Washington, The Stars in My Dreams, page 106. From the entry eek
  • “It can move forward only by hopping.”2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, Picador, page 847. From the entry expatiate
  • The sins the foundation has identified include eating at the wheel, becoming a traffic-light hopping "amber gambler" and drinking and driving.2007 December 24, “Drivers warned over the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’”, in Bolton News, UK, retrieved 29 Aug 2011. From the entry amber gambler
  • "Web Hopper" is an interweb site that enables you to visualize your Web hopping and that of other Net users.1997, Christian Schenck, Christine Schopf, editors, Cyberarts, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry interweb
  • As a huge crowd watched in anticipation, the 52-year-old rain man whooped and chanted while hopping about on a hillside.1995 November 7, Mike Foster, “Raindancer charged with manslaughter - after 7 die in flooding!”, in Weekly World News. From the entry rain man
  • Rebound-tumbling is so effortless and exhilarating that dads and moms, and even grandfolks, are hopping right along with the youngsters.1960 May 15, John Flynn, “Business Is Bouncing: Rebound-Tumbling Takes West Coast by Storm”, in The Cedar Rapids Gazette, city final…. From the entry grandfolks
  • There's a whole pile of letters for me," Jennings cried excitedly, hopping from one foot to the other.1952, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings and Darbishire. From the entry wacko
  • Dora wouldn't help me make pies 'cause she was afraid of messing her clo'es and that made me hopping mad.1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Marilla Adopts Twins”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company…. From the entry hopping mad
  • In the old days, hopping onto the platform from a not-yet-stopped train was a commonplace stunt for daily commuters in a hurry.2025 July 9, Frank Mueller, “Protecting the railway from new and existing dangers”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 62. From the entry commonplace
  • On Bumble, virtual location hopping is common, and hoodfishing—when users seem local but are actually far away—can complicate your search for nearby matches.2025 November, Chris Pleines, “Bumble Review November 2025”, in Dating Scout, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2025. From the entry hoodfishing
  • See if they have any available tours or tastings that day, or make a day of hopping between them (just have Uber be your DD).2024 August 6, Gena Kaufman, “33 Rainy-Day Date Ideas That Aren’t Another Movie”, in Glamour. From the entry dd
  • This might involve hopping from one rock to another, or looking for flat sections or patches of vegetation that might be grippier.2021, Claire Maxted, “Quick Start”, in The Ultimate Trail Running Handbook: Get Fit, Confident and Skilled Up to Go from 5K to 50K…. From the entry rocky
  • Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping.2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even…. From the entry molly
  • Hopping up, I followed after him.2013, Nicole Williams, Crush. From the entry solid
  • He let out the most enormous yell and came hopping into the kitchen screaming blue murder about leaving such dangerous things lying around.2011, Jeff Smith, Polly: Memories of an East End Girl, Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, →ISBN. From the entry blue murder
  • The one I remember had Godzilla suddenly scream (the last chord still reverberating) and go hopping off, Bambi's antler well embedded in Godzirra's foot.2010 July 25, Dillon Pyron, “The next SyFy Death Match will be between”, in alt.tv.scifi.channel (Usenet), archived from the original on…. From the entry Godzirra
  • Desert-dwelling verdins, forage solitarily, in pairs, or in small groups by actively hopping from twig to twig while sounding their surprisingly loud tseet calls almost continuously.2013, Edward C. Beedy, Edward R. Pandolfino, Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution, University of…. From the entry verdin
  • If a mob did aggro (and was a melee mob, not tried casters yet), just hopping high enough that I'm out of melee range causes it to deaggro.2007 January 10, Catriona R, “Flying mounts and aggro”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet). From the entry deaggro

Meaning of hopping

  1. noun Hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
  2. noun The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent.
  3. noun The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.

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Questions about hopping in a sentence

How do you use hopping in a sentence?
Hopping is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).”
What is a short sentence with hopping?
“Hopping up, I followed after him.”
What does hopping mean?
Hopping means hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.

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