Example Sentences

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Those meals aren’t always the most nutritious; while cafeterias slopping out “mystery meat” and cardboard pizza slices are a now teen TV cliché, it’s not far off from the truth.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2024

I almost feel like I’m at a cocktail party when I’m holding one, even if I’m slopping around in jeans.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2022

Never mind adverse consequences from slopping a new tax onto a poorly-structured pile.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2022

“She’s been working — everyone’s been working — to make it perfect, and here she is slopping on some house paint. That’s the confidence of an artist who is really in control of her language.”

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2021

I was even starting to feel something loosening up and slopping ’round in my nose.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis