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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sop.

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Examples

  • And I finish the letter anyway, kind of sopped it up, dried it off, put it in the mail and sent that letter to LA.

    Doing What's Right: How to Fight for What You Believe In - And Make a Difference 2000

  • After the last potato peeling, and the last crumb of corn bread had been "sopped" in the bacon gravy and eaten, we whittled some tobacco off a plug, filled our pipes and leaned up against the fence and smoked the most enjoyable smoke that ever was smoked.

    How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 1878

  • As the hollow-cheeked boy "sopped" his biscuit, his poor, pinched countenance wrinkled into a smile, and his sunken eyes glistened with delight.

    Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Carlton McCarthy 1872

  • Bearing gifts of flowers and sweet nuts the family came to watch the eldest son, my father; and stood about his bed while he lay on a blood-sopped pillow, his heart half rotted and his throat dry with regret.

    2009 June 16 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • He smiled agreeably to himself as he thought of those biscuits, each cut open and sopped in bacon grease, and each enclosing a generous slice of fried bacon.

    To Build A Fire 2010

  • Bearing gifts of flowers and sweet nuts the family came to watch the eldest son, my father; and stood about his bed while he lay on a blood-sopped pillow, his heart half rotted and his throat dry with regret.

    Rites and The Moon dangling wet like a Half-Pucked Eye 2009

  • And Bask-Wah-Wan sopped a particularly offensive chunk of salmon into the oil and passed it fondly and dripping to her son.

    Nam-Bok, the Unveracious 2010

  • Her garden grew bushels of plump green beans, which she added to lamb stew; wine-dark tomatoes, to be salted and tossed with oregano, olive oil, crumbled feta, and onions sliced paper thin you sopped up the brine with day-old bread; corn and potatoes and zucchini and dill.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • But Cerberus sopped himself in the pie, and I saw that I must placate him if I were to get a share of it.

    Confession 2010

  • And Bask-Wah-Wan sopped a particularly offensive chunk of salmon into the oil and passed it fondly and dripping to her son.

    NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS 2010

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