Example Sentences

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President Johnson also was leafing through the reports of 16 study-group task forces that were plopping onto his desk.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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