Otherwise there was nothing but the slopping of the river.

It hit with a monstrous splash that sent milky water slopping up onto the floor.

But there was the tiny pin-point of light high up above me and the slopping of the sea below.

Around her was the moaning of machinery, unrelieved except for the slopping of a canal.

I'm SO tired of slopping round the streets, I'd do anything to earn my living some other way."

I think the Swarmers are-" She could not hear him over the slopping of waves on the reef.

There was just the occasional creak of the tiller and the slopping of the sea under the counter as the cutter pitched slightly.

All three had frozen, ears straining for any indication of alarm from the dark mass of the Druids' island above the slopping of the water.

She set about opening the cans she chose to serve, slopping the contents into appropriate pans and arranging them on the stove, which had not gone out.

Immediately thereafter, he had produced a strip of clear plastic bandage which he slapped over the jelly smear to prevent it from slopping off my face.

The tourists had all gone home now, and the coastline was foggy and silent, except for the meep-meep of gulls, and the slopping of the sea on the piers of the jetty.

The French frigate was sinking all right: she had that slow, ponderous and ominous roll of a ship with many tons of water slopping around inside her, sluicing first to one side and then to the other.

It left a man alone with his thoughts and fears for too long: there was just the slopping of oar blades dipping in the water and the creak of the thwarts as the seated men strained at the looms of the oars.

A thoroughgoing romantic in college and beyond, slopping over with empathy and fellow-feeling, as naive as a CIA man at a rug sale, he had been hardened, annealed, by circumstances too harrowing to store in the memory banks, and since that time he had been safe.

And all she would give him was a cup of slop.

We're not going to run him in a sea of slop.

But I kept running through the slop of the first wave.

They feel an actor's job is to bring to life any old slop.

The slop bucket to come up three times a day.

A world where a man like me could be something other than a slops boy for a foreign priest.

There was a single slop bucket at night, set in the middle of the floor.

I was lying in a slop of blood and water on the deck.

The level of the slop in the center ditch began to rise.

From inside the trough, since they themselves would be the slop.

He'd been eating this slop for a thousand years too long.

Eats any kind of slop he can throw together easy.

"Beats me how anyone or anything can eat the slop they serve here."

The liquid that came out was a thick brown slop.

From beyond came the slop of boats in the dark harbor.

"You can only lay in the slop so long," he said.

Even the food was better than the processed slop he ate in the field.

"This is the real stuff, not the slop we give the press.

Got a smile like a wave on a slop bucket.

He happened to dump some slop from cider into the ground.

He went over to the huge fire pit and got his plate of slop.

The term slop was applied to an early form of hose.

She'd fallen into his bed wearing only a slop shirt.

If anyone questioned me, I was simply looking for a place to dump the slops.

He wouldn't have a nice wine with his slop, either.

"What part of the room is the least slopped up?"

Then the war ended and the good stuff slopped coming.

It is a case of each to his own cell with no slopping out.

There has been talk of a commitment to do away with slopping out by 1994.

What it came down to was I looked at things, then slopped on the paint.

A human liver slopped to the floor by my feet.

But what if the path slopped before it got to where he was sitting?

An impatient movement of his hand slopped water on the table.

The water in the bowl she slopped into a bucket.

When he put his glass down, liquid slopped onto the table.

Another step down, and the water was slopping round his ankles.

The bartender slopped a beer down in front of me.

His hand shook so it slopped over on the counter.

In fact I want you to remember both our names every day when you're slopping out."

He took the cup, and started to lift it, but some of the coffee slopped over.

He was shaking; coffee had slopped out of the cup.

He picked it up with a hand that shook so much, water slopped over the top.

Water slopped into his mouth and he spat it out.

The gruel is slopped on to their learning from the day.

I slopped some cologne all over my face and neck.

Who wants to eat on a table that's all slopped up?"

The old woman put a pitcher on the table, and water slopped over the rim.

The flight was shaky, and the water slopped, but they made it.

If we're all in it together then that also means sharing a cell and slopping out.

Water slopped out of the glass and splattered on the floor.