How to Use sop in a Sentence

sop

1 of 2 noun

• The sop of mud, the smell of clipped grass, and the rank vinegar of sweaty equipment.
  — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 27 Sep. 2017
• The donutlike gram fritters are fluffy sops for the sauces.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• And where air can flow, things such as shirts and trousers are less likely to stick to the body and sop with sweat.
  — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
• Mr Mubarak allowed a bit of space for opposition, as a safety valve and a sop to the West.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• In a sop to them, the cabinet has agreed to step up preparations for such an outcome.
  — The Economist, 9 July 2018
• With expectations so low, sops like that may earn Mr Maduro a few votes.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• In her memory, the potato balls were a sop to her limited palate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• At the highest level, therefore, Mr Xi seems to have given sops to other groups.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Back then, boosting legal immigration was seen by many on the left as a sop to big business.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2018
• In loose talk about the matter, some, Trump included, describe the provision as a sop to hedge-fund managers.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
• Natives eat doubles for breakfast and as a sop for alcohol at night.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 19 June 2019
• But she may be forced to give in, appointing him as health or education minister as a sop to the right.
  — Bloomberg.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• In our unholy era of perpetual March, it’s supposed to be a sop to those for whom escape hasn’t been an option.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2021
• Some members of the intelligentsia dismissed the job as a second-rate sop to a loyalist.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
• The irony is that the bill continues to be attacked as a sop to Mr. Moneybags even as many provisions hit the 1% with tax increases.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
• Yes, that sop to Joe Manchin on fossil fuels is very unfortunate.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2022
• The new economic framework is not a trade pact aimed at reducing tariffs, a sop to grumbling in the U.S. that trade with Asia costs American jobs.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
• As a sop to the country's powerful labor unions, the new rules will force companies to pay higher levels of severance pay.
  — Geoffrey Smith, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017
• Critics saw the bonus as a sop to drivers who might resent that the IPO meant a windfall for Lyft executives and the staff classified as employees.
  — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 22 June 2021
• The wall, which began as a bit of campaign trail hyperbole, is an act of hostility toward Mexico and a sop to Trump's base.
  — Robin Abcarian, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Mr Abe’s ostensible reason for calling the election was another sop to the young.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• His one sop to the Left at the moment seems to be establishment-favorite John Kerry as a special climate adviser.
  — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 24 Nov. 2020
• In that year, Titus—the fifth Roman emperor in 11 years, a ruler with a shaky hold on a simmering populace and no blood claim to his office—opened the Colosseum as a sop.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 14 July 2022
• The question seems to imply that asking the male artist to give up any of the purity of his artistic ambition would turn him into a sop, mediocre and cowed: into, perhaps, a woman.
  — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• For its part, China has attempted to paint the Quad meetings as a sop to Washington that do not indicate any wider regional shift against Beijing.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
• Democrats denounced it as an assault on democracy and a sop to billionaires when the Supreme Court issued a ruling two years ago that loosened limits on campaign giving.
  — Nicholas Confessore and Rachel Shorey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2016
• But the domestic automakers are overwhelmingly truck-heavy, so this is another sop to them.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 13 Nov. 2022
• This reads like a sop to critics of cultural appropriation.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
• Many Democrats and some Republicans have opposed the tax benefit as a sop to affluent families that can afford to send their children to private schools.
  — Kevin Diaz, Houston Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2017
• Maybe the speaker will be able to do both at once—many observers see the impeachment push as a McCarthy sop to get his right flank to agree to fund the government—but that seems unlikely, especially given his precarious perch as House speaker.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023

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sop

2 of 2 verb

• Crusty bread is for sopping up the great juice from the sauce.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 25 Aug. 2017
• Serve it with crusty bread to sop up some of the fragrant broth.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2020
• Serve them with crusty bread or spaghetti to sop up the sauce.
  — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 30 May 2017
• All of the volunteers and sponges in the world won’t be enough to sop up this mess.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2010
• Be sure to serve some crusty bread on the side to sop up every drop.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• Serve alongside plenty of steamed rice to sop up all the sauce.
  — Raphael Ilagan, Bon Appétit, 24 Aug. 2020
• Despite the bargain price, these rolls were thick and quick to sop up spills.
  — The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 5 Apr. 2012
• Putin’s men and women sopped this up even as the media turned a blind eye.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Be sure to tear the meat off the bone into thick, ragged hunks to better sop up the dressing.
  — Beth Dooley Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• Leave it there for a day or two so the rice can sop up most of the internal moisture.
  — Time, 19 Sep. 2017
• Stow wet boots and shoes in a tray that sops up the moisture: a plain old baking sheet lined with cork.
  — Good Housekeeping, 28 Jan. 2011
• Cotton fabrics sop up sweat and keep it close to your skin.
  — Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 10 Sep. 2014
• His shirt clung sopping to his back, and with each gust he was nearly robbed of breath.
  — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• So how about that wild swing from drought to sopping wet winter in 2016?
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2018
• Use clumps of it gripped in your chopsticks to capture stray bits of meat and to sop up rivulets of sauce on your plate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• One man hangs sopping wet clothes on a line next to his damaged home.
  — Mallory Simon, CNN, 4 Sep. 2017
• Use the jalapeño cheese bread to sop up Goode's tangy barbecue sauce and don't forget a slice of pecan pie.
  — Houston Chronicle, 10 May 2018
• There were no meds, nothing to stop or sop up the bleeding, no doctors with time for me.
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2021
• Get garlic bread or garlic noodles to sop up the sauce.
  — oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2022
• At this point, your clothing or sweater should be damp, but not sopping wet.
  — Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2018
• The weight will press excess water out of the tofu, and the paper towels will sop it up.
  — Marygrace Taylor, SELF, 25 Oct. 2022
• Serve this with plenty of crusty bread to sop up all the delicious juices that mingle at the bottom of the bowl.
  — Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
• Fresh bread that was packed on the side was soft and just the vehicle needed to sop up the extra dressing.
  — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2020
• Serve this big salad with hunks of rough whole-wheat bread to sop up all the wonderful tidbits left in the bowl.
  — Beth Dooley Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
• The dish is inspired by the flavors of paella, and suggests serving the mussels with a good bread to sop up all the juices.
  — Robin Currie, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• Serve warm with lots of bread for sopping up the sauce and a simple green salad with a light lemon vinaigrette.
  — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2018
• The rounded brick walls of the muggy, 3-foot-high, pitch-black tunnel were thick with sopping-wet grime.
  — Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
• The resulting sauce complements the tender shrimp and begs to be sopped up with bread.
  — Linda Giuca and Christopher Prosperi, courant.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Give it bright indirect light, and keep it slightly moist but not sopping wet.
  — Kate McGregor, housebeautiful.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• Not a single drop penetrated through my clothes nor was I left sopping wet.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 1 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024