slop
verb (used with object)
to spill or splash (liquid).
was slopping
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past progressiveof slop.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“That’s what I did until I got married. I was slopping Cokes and waiting tables straight out of high school, and when I quit waiting tables, I worked the evening shift at the hospital.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2016
It was all we could make out, for the sea was slopping into her, and the spray was flying everywhere.
From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cyrus Cuneo
The water was slopping all about the lugger.
From The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea by Alfred Ollivant
Then, with her arm around him, she half forced, half supported him to the port quarter, where his boat was slopping against the side.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
"Come on, Court, see the fun!" called the football half-back, who was slopping along with two dripping fire-buckets of water.
From The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
