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How to use pap in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Pap means food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children. Example: “Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.”

Examples of pap by meaning

nounFood in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.

  • Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.

nounPorridge.

  • Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.

adjectiveWeak, feeble; lacking substance.

  • He is pap.1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27

adjectiveSpineless, wet, without character.

  • He is so pap and boring.

adjectiveFlat.

  • I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.

verbTo take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.

  • Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!
  • The star of Netflix’s Wednesday, 20-year-old Jenna Ortega (another Gen Z actor) was recently papped holding an iPhone and chuffing on a straight cigarette (the fact that this was a pap photo is all the more throwback).2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

More sentences with pap

  • PAP Gahmen, they own Singapore, do what they like, so all same, same, I tell you!'2014, Catherine Lim, Roll Out the Champagne, Singapore!, →ISBN. From the entry same same
  • It hangs in little beardlets from under each pap and fizzes out from under his arms.2007, Anne Enright, chapter 10, in The Gathering, London: Vintage, page 58. From the entry beardlet
  • Pap came to stand beside her and watched the two play.2002, Glenna Whiteaker Wilding, Tales of a Ridgerunner: The Adventures of a Young Family Growing Up in the East Tennessee Mountains, 1890s…. From the entry dumb
  • These days I get more press enquiries than letters, and Mrs Santa gets papped when she goes to Iceland in her stockings.2013 December 20, Sally Brammall, “Santa: Why I'm running a social enterprise”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian…. From the entry Mrs Santa
  • So how the hearts of the paps must have leapt as Madonna plus children – and lover Jesus – hoved into view off the coast of Italy this week.2009, Liz Hunt, The Daily Telegraph, 18 Aug, "The Material Girl lives up to her name". From the entry hoved
  • She wanted to be near him for his quiet ways, his interesting lunches of cold pap and gravy, which he ate with his fingers and his unroaming eyes.2005, Joanne Fedler, The Dreamcloth, page 257. From the entry unroaming

Meaning of pap

  1. noun Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
  2. noun Pablum or nonsense.
  3. noun Porridge.

Full definition of pap

Questions about pap in a sentence

How do you use pap in a sentence?
Pap is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.”
What is a short sentence with pap?
“He is pap.”
What does pap mean?
Pap means food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.

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