Pop

//pɑp//

"Pop" in a Sentence (82 examples)

Pop artists thrive on the adulation of their loyal fans.

Last year's pop hit was set off by a serial TV drama.

It is certain that Lucy will marry the pop singer.

Do you care for pop songs?

I like pop music.

John is mad about pop music.

This is the reason that she succeeded as a pop singer.

Kevin has bought a diamond ring and is going to pop the question to Kim tonight.

Former pop stars are just plain old women by the time they're 40.

You don't like pop songs, do you?

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Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.

Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.

You have not taken anything off "pop" yet, and "pop" is the working-class drink. For the working-classes it is "pop" and cockles, just as with the upper classes it is champagne and oysters.

The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop.

Go in the store and buy us three pops.

The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.

They cost 50 pence a pop.

British rockers Radiohead solved the "music is dead" dispute last year by allowing fans to name a price for the group's new album, In Rainbows. (More than a million albums sold in the first week alone, at an average $8 a pop).

a white dress with a pop of red

a pop of vanilla flavour

Nothing screams fall like corduroy! I'm loving this deep seafoam green shacket—made of the thick, ribbed material—that'll give a fab pop of color to a muted ensemble.

Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it.

And then I got a shock, for a couple of ragged patriots standing close by, leaned over as Elliot moved, their eyes shining viciously, and quick as winking out came their pops, and I saw them ready and willing, yes, darned anxious to shoot.

Immature peanuts, called "pops," are often included when the peanuts are boiled at home […]

If the peanuts weren't yet mature, boiling them would make the tiny nuts—or “pops,” as they're called at that immature stage—swell up and become more filling.

Although they go by many names across the world freezer pop, ice-pole, pop stick icy-pole ice pop, tip top and ice candy but in the hoods of America they are known and respected as Freeze Pops. The pops are made by freezing flavored liquid such as sugar water, Kool-Aid or some form of fruit juice or purée inside a plastic tube - at least the kinds we ate.

The muskets popped away on all sides.

The boy with the pin popped the balloon.

This corn pops well.

The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.

"To torture another metaphor, it would be the difference between slowly letting the air out of a balloon, and popping it. Though the dam metaphor is more apt, what with the excess magic flooding outward."

A rabbit popped out of the hole.

He that hath . . ./ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.

I startled at his popping upon me unexpectedly.

So, diving in a bottomless sea, they [the Roman Church] pop sometimes above water to take breath.

others again have a trick of popping up and down every moment from their paper, to the audience, like an idle schoolboy

When company comes, you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frightened rabbits in a warren.

Lee Cheng popped on the phone line. "Right. I'm tracing it." More keytaps, this time with a few beeps thrown in.

Just pop it in the fridge for now.

He popped his head around the door.

Mix a pancake, Stir a pancake, Pop it in the pan;[…]

I'm just popping round to the newsagent.

I'll pop by your place later today.

You wait in the car, I'm just gonna pop in the store.

This colour really pops.

She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped.

IK what you’re thinking: Why bright for fall? But it’s actually a great hack for making your hair pop a bit more against all those big black coats and jackets.

He popped me on the nose.

Ah concur wi Sharon’s wishes n fuck her in the fanny. […] Ah think aboot how close she is tae poppin and how far up ah am, […]

Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.

The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

Well, dear. You're ready to pop, aren't you? Little one's on its way.

"Gavin told me one of his friends was pregnant, but my goodness, she looks ready to pop."

A lot of Black men are deluding themselves into thinking they're not homosexual or bisexual, even though they are having sex with other men. They're not 'gay,' but sure, they've 'popped some sissies.'

Why Halle have to let a white man pop her to get a Oscar?

I had to pop my watch to see me through until pay-day.

I often used to smile at a young Ensign of the Guards, who always popped his sword and watch when he wanted cash for an intrigue; […]

Mr. Attenborough is naturally indignant at the accusation of Lord Truro that every pawnbroker keeps a smelting apparatus on the premises. He says the practice has been discontinued for many years, and our esteemed relative — the Universal Uncle — objects to the insinuation that when a thing is popped it goes to pot.

We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.

31 pop some chocolate You'll stay sharp and focused for that final lunge toward the weekend. Milk chocolate has been shown to boost verbal and visual memory, impulse control, and reaction time.

Pop a U-turn. You missed the turnoff.

Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...

The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...

My ears popped as the aeroplane began to ascend.

With its airtight seals, the pressure change as trains entered the black, dust-covered station areas caused our ears to pop and doors to flap and bang every time.

Let the poppers pop and the breakers break / We're cool, cool cats, it's like that

He's on probation. We can pop him right now for gang association.

On the night Nolan got popped, the same cop delivered Milton home in the back of the cruiser, but didn’t turn the lights on.

What's popping?

Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened.

So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, 'Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.

My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.

GUNNISON 35.5m. (153 alt., 484 pop.), is larger than the usual plantation town, having several stores instead of one.

There was at that time in the house of the Consul a Pop (or Russian Priest) named Iwan Afanassich.

The contemporary priest's... own children are ashamed and some abusers are openly "transmitting the pop" (a gesture of mocking the priest on the street, where a man would touch his private parts while smiling at other passers-by)

By the end of 1809 she was declaring to all and sundry that she would sooner marry 'a pop than the sovereign of a country under the influence of France'. Since a pop was a Russian Orthodox parish priest, the reference was hardly likely to endear her family to the French.

One commonly used POP (persistent organic pollutant), organochlorine, may be responsible for contaminating the world's seafood supply, since pesticides can run off the land into streams, lakes, and reservoirs.

The parachutes at Riverview Park will shake us up all day / And Disneyland and P.O.P. is worth a trip to L.A

As to the tall, curly-haired man, I suppose it was the one who was with me at the last Pop.

“All the other stars would leave the theatre wearing fur coats, fancy hats, and imported French shoes,” said Pop Stern, a longtime stage-doorman.

[…] George Melford (Pop, stage doorman) […]

[…] Ralph Sanford (doorman); A.S. “Pop” Byron (stage doorman); Allen Fox (photographer); […]

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