Example Sentences

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If, say, a housing development plops down where you live, you are forced to wander.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

But instead of worrying about giving the audience too much of a good thing with a sequel, Feig plops another heaping scoop of melodrama onto the viewer’s plate.

From Salon • May 3, 2025

In one episode, he dances into the kitchen, shouts “What’s up, party people?” and plops a basket of freshly folded laundry on the floor.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2023

Joy plops down a chicken sandwich food truck, with plans to add a brick-and-mortar restaurant at the corner of 11th Avenue and East Pine Street in the fall.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023

From somewhere up ahead the young mouse could hear the sound of dripping water; the musical echoing plops made an eerie noise in the sinister stillness of the passage.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques