plop
Example Sentences
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“Here we listen for boys,” Pua says as she plops down on one of the empty benches.
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Perhaps the loudest: lobbyists and salespeople who have used open seating to zero in on a prospective client or lawmaker and plop down next to them for an in-flight pitch.
He poured him a glass of orange juice and plopped a couple of cookies on another plate, then sat opposite Coal at the kitchen table.
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I plopped down on the dusty trunk and watched them walk away, Aunt Kitty in her severe gray gown, Mrs. Maroney in her fashionable scarlet one with wide skirts billowing around her.
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“What were you and the soccer twins doing yesterday?” she asks, plopping herself down at the table.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.