plop

Need to plop your children in front of something?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"He started coming to some of our gigs, and would plop itself on to one of our seats."

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The incident has left city officials scratching their heads as to how the creature crossed the 210 Freeway and decided to plop down in a heavily populated residential area surrounded by major streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

But since they’re immortal, they can simply reattach their own limbs and plop their heads back in place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Snow slid off the branch and fell with a soft plop.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary

F1 picks up the paddock—the behind-the-scenes village of garages and other infrastructure—and plops it in Singapore without changing the clocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

If, say, a housing development plops down where you live, you are forced to wander.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

Enthralled, Elio plops a colander on his head and pleads for aliens to touch down and “take me with you — but not in a desperate way.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

But instead of worrying about giving the audience too much of a good thing with a sequel, Feig plops another heaping scoop of melodrama onto the viewer’s plate.

From Salon ● May 3, 2025

Didu plops in the chair and scans our semicircle of faces.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

The ball bounced off the opposing outfielder’s glove and plopped over the wall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Her son Victor, 11, plopped onto the sidewalk to read his Imagination Library edition of "Llama Llama Red Pajama," a family favorite.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

In the morning, as we ate vegan doughnuts and watched cat cartoons, kitten Asher plopped onto my lap and purred loudly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

After being led through the fashion house’s nostalgic pop-up retail activation, Villa Zegna, I was plopped down at a table in the back of the pool deck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

She plopped down on the couch, put her feet up on the antique coffee table, and took off her school hat to reveal a short, cropped purple Mohawk.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

You can pace around the living room when you’re watching TV instead of plopping down on the couch.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

For solo travelers or couples, that means plopping down next to strangers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

By plopping modern medicine on the exam table, O’Sullivan offers a thought-provoking challenge to our common assumptions about the importance of early and accurate diagnosis.

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

“I remember this smell,” he says, plopping down on a ratty sofa beneath a faded oil painting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

On the way back home, big fat raindrops started plopping on the windshield.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney