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How to use sop in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Sop means something entirely soaked. Example: “I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.”

Examples of sop by meaning

nounA thing of little or no value.

  • Americans watch their 91 channels of superficial satellite sop.1988 August 20, Rex Wockner, “Nobody Can Do It Like The USA”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 5

More sentences with sop

  • I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.From the entry kidhood
  • Maybe double-dipped (sopped with gravy), hot and sweet (with giardiniera and peppers).2013, Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food, page 24. From the entry Italian beef
  • Quickly, I gathered up some paper towels and sopped up my mess.2011, May-lee Chai, Dragon Chica, page 217. From the entry sop up
  • By calling the referendum in the first place, Cameron was offering a sop to the Cerberus of the Tory Brexiters.2017 April 9, William Keegan, “Brexit hasn’t happened yet – and it is changing all the time”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry sop to Cerberus
  • We're permeatedly and permanently soaked & sopped.2003 March 29, Tom Keats, “Re: Hair”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet), message-ID <i2k36b.8k.ln@bud.garden.local>. From the entry rhododendra
  • From liar to murderer, like in the Æsop fable.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, chapter eleven, § I, page 316 (1992 paperback ed., Mandarin Paperbacks). From the entry Æsop
  • This sop to Cerberus had the happiest results.1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic. From the entry sop to Cerberus
  • In the jargon of Trumpology, the president has tossed a sop to his climate-change denying chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and disappointed his green daughter, Ivanka.2017 June 2, Simon Jenkins, “Trump wants to shut out the world. Ditching the Paris deal proves it”, in The Guardian, London. From the entry Trumpology
  • Like a toddler with a security blanket, the political handlanger is a necessary sop and sponge for all the tension that goes with the job.2006, Richard Calland, Anatomy of South Africa: Who Holds the Power?, Cape Town: Zebra Press, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry handlanger
  • "Should I do it?" Jimmy asked again, finishing off his beer and using a piece of bread to sop up the sofrito.1996, Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow, Ballantine Books, published 2008, page 18. From the entry sofrito
  • With a sponge we could continue drifting along, just reach inside, sop up some spongefuls, and squeeze them back into the river, where they belonged.1996, John Calvin Giddings, Demon River Apurímac. From the entry spongeful
  • Your happy ending is obviously a sop to the tired business man of readerdom who prefers to do his thinking in the office.1915, Lippincott's monthly magazine, volume 95. From the entry readerdom

Meaning of sop

  1. noun Something entirely soaked.
  2. noun A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
  3. noun Gravy.

Full definition of sop

Questions about sop in a sentence

How do you use sop in a sentence?
Sop is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.”
What is a short sentence with sop?
“We're permeatedly and permanently soaked & sopped.”
What does sop mean?
Sop means something entirely soaked.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sop (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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