Example Sentences

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Any veteran Hollywood duo�say, Jean Arthur and James Stewart in their light-comedy heyday�might have sopped up such moonshine with ease and squeezed a harmless message out of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would not have sopped up many tears, but it served her ladyship's turn.

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew