Adjective : Her clothes were sopping from the rain. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : The political boss gave him some cash as a sop. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to sop bread in gravy. ,He used bread to sop up the gravy. From Dictionary.com.
(They could have easily called the sopping game before 5 innings, necessitating a full do-over. From Wordnik.com. [IntegrateIT - KyleWelsh.com] Reference
I won't have this her sopping handkerchief fell in. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
And she ` s sopping wet but looks better than ever. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2005] Reference
They were all sopping wet with blood or mud or both. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915] Reference
BLITZER: What's sopping you from going back to Iraq?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2006] Reference
It was sopping wet, immediately taken to a hospital. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2007] Reference
Clutched the sopping scarlet towel tightly at one end. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
I pry off my sopping shirt, strip away my pajama pants. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Lives In My Shower] Reference
And then I woke up and my - the pillow was sopping wet. From Wordnik.com. [In Memoriam: Sweet, Sad Rocker Vic Chesnutt] Reference
Crouching, Fox shoved his sopping hair back from his face. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Brothers]
We are all pretty much just sopping wet, incredibly wrinkled. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2005] Reference
All the clothing was sopping with water and beaten into the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
We were sopping gravy out with some cold corn bread, when Captain. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
Sweat is running from every pour; the actress 'brow is sopping wet. From Wordnik.com. [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference
Today, at age thirty-three, he might weigh 120 pounds, sopping wet. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
She took off her sopping frock, and gave it to the woman to hang up. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference
He was holding my business card by one corner as if it was sopping wet. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
Mikey squeezed himself into those sopping jeans and headed for his truck. From Wordnik.com. [Cheat Sheets] Reference
Her sneakers left blurry, sopping footprints on the splintery floorboards. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Trouble]
He headed for it, throwing his sopping cloak and leather hat to the stone floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
I felt wonderful as I sat in pain on the floor, sopping the blood out of my eyes. From Wordnik.com. [I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon] Reference
He turned his sopping shoes on end over the grate and dialed the thermostat higher. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
He tossed the sopping, warm facecloth in the corner by the shower of the hotel bathroom. From Wordnik.com. [Worth a Thousand Words] Reference
GRACE: Whoever vacuumed up that sopping wet carpet in the bathroom felt there was no rush. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2009] Reference
The Kleenexes were called into use, sopping tears, wiping Bonnie Cavanaugh's reddened nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Debt Collector]
Very little of the sweat that Jason wiped from his sopping face was caused by the heat in the room. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
It was obvious that that one wretched, dirt-stained, sopping wet rag was all the clothing he had on. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Besides, they add, both Cam Ranh Bay and the Cuban base were sopping up funds badly needed elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [America's New Friend?] Reference
I throw on a sopping towel and creep across the hall to my room, the drain gurgling sickly behind me. From Wordnik.com. [The Stay Apparatus] Reference
For years, many climate scientists reckoned that the oceans were part of the solution, sopping up excess heat and carbon. From Wordnik.com. [Reefs: Coral's Faltering Partnership] Reference
With little water being sopping up by trees, aquifers were not replenished, leading to severe shortages of drinking water. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Schweitzer: Seed Corn, Discount Rate and Our Endangered Future] Reference
"It doesn't seem to blow so hard," observed Mr. Damon, as he was tenderly sopping his head with a handkerchief wet in the salt water. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island] Reference
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