Plop

//plɑp//

"Plop" in a Sentence (15 examples)

We hear the plop of a frog jumping into the canal.

Our best pictures of the human mind suggest that we don't plop our mental activities into single, ordered boxes.

Plop into the water and dive.

Stefan heard another plop.

Just plop it on the counter there.

Can you plop some ice into my drink?

Tom heard a loud plop.

Tom jumped in. Plop!

He heard the plops of rain on the roof.

Stooping, she picked up another pebble, sounded out the word again, and tossed it into the shallow water near the path, where it plopped into the water, sending out circles from where it fell.

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He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.

As the sun plops into the Pacific off Venice Beach, California, the four of us are sitting in a rented car at the corner of Rose and Main.

There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.

The first time I had niku udon was at a Japanese convenience store, now long closed, near Columbia University in the mid-1990s. For about $5, the attendants would plop a handful of freshly boiled udon into a Styrofoam cup and add a ladle of dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin.

"[A]fter a bit the old ship went down all on a sudden with a lurch to starboard---plop. The suck in was something awful."

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