I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
soaking/sopping/wringing wet (= very wet )
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His suit was soaking wet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dangerous game, a sop to his conscience, he told himself, and he had his enemies.
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Before the election, they often gave the impression that they saw it only as a sop for disaffected left-wing intellectuals.
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It was a contemptuous sop of a clue, something they thought they could afford, but it might be useful.
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Some critics question its sustainability and others view it as a sop to pacify the poor.
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The most substantive problem, which advocates try to hide, is that the flat tax is a sop to the rich.
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This latest move is seen mainly as a sop to the increasingly militant, student-led protests demanding an immediate trial.
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Yet, underneath all that show of sop and decency was a man utterly fixed on himself, on his own concerns.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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Beneath his glass lay a sheet of paper, sopping up wine.
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She wanted to sop up whatever it was that drove Carrie away.
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The amendment passed, and the Gallos sopped up millions.
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Off we went to a rickety bar in Sabinal Mextown and spent an hour sopping up the brew.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beneath his glass lay a sheet of paper, sopping up wine.
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I sat peacefully at the Lopezes' kitchen table as they fed Janir some applesauce and bread sopped in milk.
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Off we went to a rickety bar in Sabinal Mextown and spent an hour sopping up the brew.
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She wanted to sop up whatever it was that drove Carrie away.
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The amendment passed, and the Gallos sopped up millions.