bop

Example Sentences

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He adds a funky countermelody, reminiscent of Horace Silver or Lee Morgan, and remakes “Billy Joe” into a remarkable slice of hard bop, a 12-minute roller-coaster ride.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

Carpenter closed, as she always does, with “Espresso,” and if you’d assumed that by now this breezy electro-pop bop would inevitably have lost some of its fizz, think again.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

It didn’t take more than a few days for Peter Cook, a marine mammal sciences professor at the New College of Florida, to train Ronan to bop her head to music.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2025

Now, he’s lost the one place he could bop around as freely and easily as any other 10-year-old.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

The children all look too tired to bop up and down, laugh, or splash at one another.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung