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How to use soapy in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective, noun

Soapy means resembling soap. Example: “Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them.”

Examples of soapy by meaning

adjectiveResembling soap.

  • Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them.

adjectiveFull of soap.

  • The dishwasher uses hot soapy water to clean the dishes and silverware.

adjectiveCovered in soap.

  • His skin was still soapy after the shower.

adjectiveResembling a soap opera.

  • The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format.2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club

More sentences with soapy

  • YouTuber Chris Fix keeps a spray bottle of soapy wooder handy while he is repairing and cleaning cars.From the entry wooder
  • But now I could recognise it at once - soapy, mentholy, a little sweaty, musky, turpsy.2002, Ronald Frame, Permanent Violet, Polygon, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry turpsy
  • Some soapy water and a little elbow grease and we'll have the Glam Van clean in no time.2019, Sunny, “Violet's Adventure”, in Sunny Day. From the entry elbow grease
  • If a sore is very crusted, you can soak it in warm, soapy water to loosen the crust.2008, Theresa Roberts, ABC's of Bumps & Bruises. From the entry crusted
  • Mummy is playing with the boy's dangly bits, polishing them with soapy water, and rubbing them up and down.1993, Sarah Miles, A right royal bastard (Page 32). From the entry dangly bits
  • Presently he came running out of the scullery, with the soapy water dripping from him, dithering with cold.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry dither
  • Processing the harvested cocoons begins with grading and then boiling them in soapy water to soften the sericin that binds the fibers together.2026, Elise Young, “Yagaa: Reviving Sericulture in Southern Mexico”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 16. From the entry process
  • Milk Toast had Dirty Dan down and the spicket on his barrel wide open and all that soapy water was running all over Dan's body.2014, John Blais, The Last Showdown at the Dog Food Corral, Xlibris Corporation, page 3. From the entry spicket
  • A widespread belief in the AAF is that foam—a heavy soapy, sudsy substance—is the principal agent used in crash fire fighting .1944 September, “Crash Fires: how to fight them”, in Air Force Magazine, volume 27, page 50. From the entry sudsy
  • They used to share the water as kids, and for some reason Irene always managed to bags the first bath; Riva made do with the soapy second.2016, Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry bags
  • Jimmy Lah was pouring some soapy blender concoction for the bar's only customer besides himself, a fruitcake with a roosterish yellow Mohawk and oversized pink eyeglasses.1988, Peter Straub, Koko, Anchor Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry roosterish

Meaning of soapy

  1. adjective Resembling soap.
  2. adjective Full of soap.
  3. adjective Covered in soap.

Full definition of soapy

Questions about soapy in a sentence

How do you use soapy in a sentence?
Soapy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them.”
What is a short sentence with soapy?
“His skin was still soapy after the shower.”
What does soapy mean?
Soapy means resembling soap.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soapy (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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