- present participle of soap.
soaping
Example Sentences
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He worked six days a week, hosing down cars, soaping them up and vacuuming inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
Exuberant young men splashing around in a pool with one theatrically soaping himself as a crowd cheered.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024
Set up an assembly line from soaping and scrubbing to rinsing to drying.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Doing it while a shower is running and then soaping up, thus creating a steamy-sudsy environment, would be even better for masking the odors your body produces.
From Slate ● May 25, 2020
He run some water out of a jug and started soaping up the cap’n’s hair.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
