sop up

phrasal verb

sopped up; sopping up; sops up

: to remove (a liquid) from a surface by using soft paper, bread, etc.

He sopped up the gravy with pieces of bread.

Examples of sop up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So here’s the problem: Voters weren’t told that some of the money would be used for sopping up budget red ink. —George Skelton, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025

This savory bread roll stuffed with chorizo is the perfect late-night treat to sop up cider and makes for a perfectly acceptable breakfast. —Jenn Rice, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025

Amazonian white clay sops up extra oil and leaves you with a more mattified, radiant complexion. —Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 3 Mar. 2025

The sampling menu after the show was catered by J’s Breakfast Club on Broadway in Gary and included everything from the simple fufu, a root dough used to sop up a stew, to seafood gumbo, jambalaya, and red beans and rice, among the dishes. —Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for sop up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup