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How to use soup in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Soup means any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture. Example: “Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.”

Examples of soup by meaning

nounAny of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat...

  • Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.

verbTo feed: to provide with soup or a meal.

  • "I was so mad, I let him wait half an hour to-night before I souped him."1904 October, “East is East and West is West”, in The Vassar Miscellany, volume 34, number 1, page 236
  • She cooked huge stock pots and souped her dogs once a day.2011, Diza Sauers, Historama, page 152
  • I souped the dogs, and went in for a bite.2008, C Mark Chapoton, A Tale of Two Iditarods, page 34

verbTo develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.

  • "You photo-guys'll be souping her film."1991, Ruth Jean Dale, Society Page
  • By 6 pm Beau and I are back at the paper, souping the film, when Woody rushes into the room.2005, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: A Personal Approach, page 242

More sentences with soup

  • The soup is rather spicy. Are you good with that, or would you like something else?From the entry good
  • The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.From the entry insipid
  • You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.From the entry bowl
  • Don’t lap your soup like that! You look like a dog.From the entry lap
  • No one is so depraved that a soupçon of goodness cannot be found in them.From the entry soupçon
  • He boiled the soup down so it wouldn't be so weak.From the entry boil down
  • The savory rabbit soup contrasted well with the sweet cucumber sandwiches with jam.From the entry savory
  • They accused the cook of being a hack, claiming that the soup was tasteless.From the entry tasteless
  • The vegetables were okay, but the soup was nothing to write home about.From the entry nothing to write home about
  • Parents have been entertaining their children at mealtime with alphabet soup since the nineteenth century.From the entry alphabet soup
  • The various engineering teams' correspondence on circuit board design was an alphabet soup to outsiders.From the entry alphabet soup
  • I don't know which was worse, the lumpy soup or the lumpy bed.From the entry lumpy
  • To make the soup, you should first liquidize the carrots to remove lumps.From the entry liquidize
  • The soup kitchen laicised, it moved out of the church and registered as an independent non-profit.From the entry laicize
  • The soup was distastefully crammed with every spice from the spice cabinet.From the entry distastefully
  • His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.From the entry chicken soup
  • I made a creamy vegetable soup with carrots, celery, tomatoes, and potatoes.From the entry vegetable soup
  • I'll have a grilled cheese and a bowl of tomato soup, please.From the entry grilled cheese
  • For many people, gazpacho is the first and last summer soup that comes to mind.From the entry summer soup
  • “What's your soup du jour today?” “Cream of tomato, just like every day.”From the entry soup du jour
  • Waiter! There's a fly in my soup!From the entry in
  • Soup in a can lasts for years.From the entry can
  • The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.From the entry ok
  • Have some chicken soup. It's good for what ails you.From the entry ail
  • It's a soup that eats like a meal.From the entry eat
  • My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.From the entry stone
  • Can you give the soup a little stir?From the entry stir
  • You could try adding more salt to the soup.From the entry could
  • There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.From the entry heat
  • This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.From the entry code
  • We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow.From the entry follow
  • Waiter! There's a fly in my soup.From the entry waiter
  • The host ladled the soup into her guests' bowls.From the entry ladle
  • Oh, you need to try the soup of the day!From the entry try

Meaning of soup

  1. noun Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
  2. noun A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
  3. noun The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.

Full definition of soup

Questions about soup in a sentence

How do you use soup in a sentence?
Soup is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.”
What is a short sentence with soup?
“"You photo-guys'll be souping her film."”
What does soup mean?
Soup means any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: soup (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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