lop
Example Sentences
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The new apartment will lop nearly $800 off their rent, said his wife, 36, adding, “It will be a great help, especially when we’re looking for child care.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025
The bonus deduction is written to lop $6,000 or $12,000 from a household’s yearly taxable income.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 22, 2025
In his Newsnight interview, Lowe said of Farage's "brutal" leadership style "If people become, if you like, too tall a poppy, he tends to lop off the head of the poppy".
From BBC • May 15, 2025
“Maybe you don’t lop off the tops of every mountain,” jokes Selena Deckelmann, chief product and technology officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024
He said, “I just center the subject as best I can and lop off whatever hangs over on either end.”
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing lop
Essential Three-Letter Words, Part 3
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"Two Kinds" (from The Joy Luck Club) by Amy Tan
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