How to Use cop to in a Sentence

cop to

phrasal verb

• Juice cops to the Ghost being a myth but argues that all who fly to protect Ukraine are their own ghosts of Kyiv.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• When pressed for the source of an assertion, AI sometimes cops to making things up.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 12 Aug. 2023
• Would Barber be arguing for that cop to do prison time?
  — Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 14 May 2024
• Even those who don’t cop to this behavior still sometimes do it.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2023
• Baron tells Asaf), and the community is rallying to try to bring the cops to justice.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
• Yes, John Harbaugh will cop to having some Taylor Swift songs on his phone.
  — Noah Trister, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• This led the cops to obtain a warrant for the surveillance footage and other evidence.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
• The proposal still would have allowed cops to use the dogs for search and rescue and to detect narcotics and explosives.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• Jokić copped to a fondness for Coke by the litre and for burek, a Serbian pastry usually filled with meat or cheese.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• On his last mission, Hole has to partner with a corrupt cop to investigate the murder of a woman.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
• Cahill, who presided over Chauvin's trial, sentenced the veteran cop to 22 1/2 years in prison.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 May 2023
• The Grammy winner copped to the mistake on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after the episode aired.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• The Grammy winner copped to the mistake on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after the episode aired.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
• If your birthday is today – Aug. 12 – your Florida Man is a drunk riding a lawn mower on the highway, begging cops to take him to jail.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 12 Aug. 2023
• Alec Baldwin copped to an Instagram gaffe after sharing a tribute to his children, only to leave one of them out.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 May 2023
• After Spears deleted her Instagram page, concerned fans called cops to her house, who then deduced that nothing was wrong.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2023
• To this day Kim Kardashian has only ever copped to getting Botox injections in her neck, per People.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 27 July 2023
• Some parents called for more cops to patrol the neighborhood, noting that their nannies would no longer walk by certain subway stations.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2023
• Sandoval recalls overhearing Scheana copping to punching Raquel in the face, though everything Sandoval says at this point must be taken with a mine of salt.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
• The film tells the story of an Irish mob boss who plants a spy within the Massachusetts State Police just as the police assign an undercover cop to infiltrate the gang.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
• But the whole sequence is impressively ugly, and Danvers’ response — putting Leah in a jail cell and refusing entreaties by the other cops to stop being so tough on the kid — is even uglier.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
• James Weeks, 55, of Sodus, just east of Rochester, copped to charges of assault and resisting police officers in federal court in Washington.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
• Critics say a vague definition of civil disturbances will allow cops to squash protests.
  — USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
• Balla cops to recently wrestling back control over the band’s merch from the company that usually handles it, leaving his house full of cardboard boxes.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
• This is what Barack Obama, who copped to wearing only gray or dark blue suits as president, aside from that one unfortunate tan suit moment, said, as did Mr. Zuckerberg.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• Biden seems eager to goad Trump to either defend his longstanding position or cop to a monumental flip-flop.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
• It was rumored Pacino’s character was a cokehead, something Pacino and Mann have copped to in recent years.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
• Biden, 53, is copping to two misdemeanor tax evasion charges and one firearm offense, according to a court filing in Delaware on Tuesday.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• The gentle formula is so beloved by parents that several Amazon reviewers copped to using it for themselves, not just the littles.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 29 Dec. 2023
• Nishad Singh, a longtime family friend, who copped to what sounded an awful lot like classic embezzlement.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024