How to Use soap opera in a Sentence

soap opera

noun

• She loves to watch daytime soap operas.
• The pair had met on the set of the soap opera Passions in 2003.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 26 Oct. 2020
• His first big job was on the soap opera As the World Turns.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2024
• Compare that to some of the rest of the soap opera this movie has in store and — well.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2021
• Dallas is a soap opera from the 1970s that aired on CBS.
  — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
• The Crown is now more of a soap opera than ever before.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2022
• The renewal takes the soap opera through to its 55th season.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
• As fans may know, the couple met on the set of the longtime-running soap opera in 1995.
  — Rebecca Norris, Good Housekeeping, 22 Apr. 2022
• In the wake of his death, Miller’s former soap opera co-stars paid tribute to the actor.
  — Ariana Brockington, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The antics of the gods on Mount Olympus would rival the plot of the most salacious soap opera.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• Zucker has starred as Nicole Walker on the soap opera since 1998.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Baker and Rigg met in the early 1990s and went on to star in the Australian soap opera, E Street.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• Except this isn’t a prime-time soap opera trying to write its way out of a jam.
  — Nolan Hicks, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
• That was the beginning of a soap opera that cast doubt on his future in Green Bay.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
• Tuesday marked the latest chaotic day in the Big Ten's month-long soap opera.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2020
• That was when baseball was king and the Sox were an irresistible 12-month soap opera.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Well, in the SEC there is always a soap opera playing out inside the drama.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• The pair met in 1985 working on the soap opera Loving and married just six months later.
  — Kara Nesvig, Peoplemag, 8 Oct. 2023
• In her new role, Havins will portray the young woman who has been in a coma in the soap opera since late 2020.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024
• That scenario, one part soap opera and one part opera buffa . . .
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 7 Mar. 2021
• Meanwhile, as is typical, the Jets have been a soap opera.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2020
• There have been many episodes of this unfortunate soap opera over the years.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2024
• Musk will now own the Twitter platform as an end to this saga and soap opera that began in April.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2022
• To be a soap opera heroine is to be a virgin, especially in the Nineties.
  — Maitland Ward, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
• What if the non-source music swells and bursts like the melodramatic score of a soap opera at times?
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
• For the first time in 35 years, a soap opera will have a predominantly Black cast.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• Peacock is about to get a dose of daytime soap opera drama.
  — Lillian Rizzo, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• By the end, the tale has blossomed into a Homeric soap opera.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2021
• The way Wolf Bradley met Andrew Macatrao sounds like the beginnings of a teen soap opera.
  — Ilana Kaplan, SPIN, 10 May 2022
• That is due, in large part, to people dying and coming back, and so there’s a soap opera quality to it that can be magnificent.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024