May day was returning, seeping back into a sopping world, and still they hadn't gone to bed.

It poured forth a saturated, sopping heat that made him sit rigid in his chair, unable to look away.

But Heretford looked intelligent and competent, and the handful of men under his command showed signs of good discipline: their weapons well-kept, and their uniforms crisp despite the nearly sopping heat.

Or was that just a sop because He needed him?

The last was just a sop and the three of them knew it.

Monk was not a man to give another an easy sop.

Democrats in Congress see this as a sop to the rich.

He that was a real son to him, and not a mock sop like me.

As a sop to Mary, he agreed to take the six girls along.

Was it an offer, or a sop to toss at the American government?

This was a small sop to comfort; he did not very much believe it himself.

The author gave him a good moral excuse as a sop to the public.

It was as though such prizes were meant to be a sop.

The sop of bread was cold, but she ate it.

The idea of force in such a program is a sop for indignant parents.

Or was it just created as a sop to an outraged public before the election?

"He comes out with faith-based programs as a sop to the religious right."

They use Sop as the name for their language.

And having made a legal contract, there was absolutely nothing the poor sop could do about it.

The Sop language has been labelled under several different names.

Such a gesture could even be derided as a sop.

Good bread brought to every table was a fine sop for that lovely sauce.

"I'm afraid he only told me as a sop to his pride.

A sop is a piece of bread soaked in a liquid.

And sensible on occasion is my one sop to advancing age.

Liberals say this is a sop to the rich.

Many Democrats call it a sop to the wealthy.

Hitler began a long speech with a sop to the industrialists.

In other words, we want to sop his private mind.

It's not enough to sit on a bench and sop up the local color.

The kind of girl you wanted to sop up with a biscuit.

I'll just take this bar towel to sop some of it up.

If only he had his beard back so that it might sop up the tears.

"You mean everything here can sop us up, like sponges?"

The dish is so satisfying that you want to sop up every drop.

After all, what's a baguette but something to sop up the last of- your soup with?

It took until last year to regain all the recession jobs lost and sop up the extra office space.

The sauce was so delicious we used bread to sop up every drop.

He added, "They're short-term but they still sop up money."

"They're trying to sop up every nickel of ad revenue in the area," he said.

He was seen using pumpernickel bread to sop up the juice.

The fragment should, according to the theory, sop up interleukin 1.

But my life is one rock and roll never had it sop good, sadly that could be the drugs talking.

They were delicious on their own and even better when used to sop up the paprika sauce.

Learn cleaning methods to sop up all traces of these berries.

I used the hem of my burnous to sop up the blood.

It must get credit for the country's forests and fields, which can sop up the same greenhouse gas.

Such sales can be expected to sop up considerable excess liquidity.

What the Fed did in effect was a technical move to sop up some of the float."

I wished only for more-interesting bread to sop up the sauce.

And it doesn't sop up as much oil as other mushrooms.

She needed something to sop up the caffeine.

Disgusted and angry, he tried to sop up some of the muddy water with his handkerchief.