sop up


verb
  1. (tr, adverb) to mop or take up (spilt water, etc) with or as if with a sponge

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How to use sop up in a sentence

  • He couldn't get anything that would sop up oil and hold a light for half a minute.

  • She flung a towel down to sop up the tiny flood, and saw it swiftly crimson before her eyes.

    A Sheaf of Corn | Mary E. Mann
  • I remember one of them used a slice of bread to sop up blood like gravy.

    The Night of the Long Knives | Fritz Reuter Leiber
  • Like sponges they sop up the limited quantity of selling chances they happen to get.

    Certain Success | Norval A. Hawkins
  • And it's surprising ain't it, what a lot of information you can sop up when you do the sponge act in earnest?

    Torchy, Private Sec. | Sewell Ford