plop
verb (used without object)
to make a sound like that of something falling or dropping into water.
were plopping
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past progressiveof plop.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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At the height of the Purge, when Russian nerves were badly frayed and people were plopping into prison like turtles into a pond, Stalin decided to hear Lady Macbeth.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Johnson also was leafing through the reports of 16 study-group task forces that were plopping onto his desk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before he reached the haymeadow, the first big raindrops were plopping down and exploding in the yellow dust.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
It was hailing now, and little chunks of ice were plopping onto the walk and bouncing up again, and then being rushed away in the streams that swept toward the highway.
From Four and Twenty Beds by Vogel, Nancy
Quite a good lot of bullets were plopping into the water, so the Commodore ordered the Colne to lie further out.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Hamilton, Ian, Sir
