slops

Example Sentences

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The Lakers are that rare family operation that continually lops off the head of the family for the sake of one of the whining kids.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

There will always be a tree, for instance, which she purposely buys too tall and lops off to a ceiling-scraping height, but it will rarely look the same.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

He often quotes a passage from the book of Matthew in which Peter, attempting to defend Jesus against the Romans, pulls out a sword and lops off the ear of a Roman servant.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 19, 2019

With a machete, Gildardo Ramirez lops twelve pods off one of his cacao trees, letting them fall to its base.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2018

I stand on a towel while she lops off my curls with quick snaps of the shears.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins