How to Use fop in a Sentence

fop

noun

• Rory O’Malley is a hoot and a half as the megalomaniacal monarch of the piece, delivering a tour-de-fop as King George.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2017
• Day's Sir Harcourt, with his ebony-dyed locks and effete manners, shares lineage with the fops of Restoration comedy.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
• The brothers support the FOP's dream to create a permanent memorial.
  — Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• The foolish fop (Casey Hoekstra) taking him on insults Cyrano’s plain appearance.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2017
• Meanwhile, a troop of ever-so-proper Dragoon Guards returns to town, and the soldiers are bemused to find all their betrotheds besotted with this fancified fop.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2017
• Ferry, by nature shy and self-effacing, reinvented himself as a fop with issues.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• This 1836 work — in which a witless fop is assumed to be a powerful state functionary by corrupt politicians in the provinces — infuses scathing satire with giddy surrealism.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• The surrounding players are exaggerated, one-note caricatures; Barrie’s wife is a superficial shrew, her lover is a fop, the grandmother is stern and matronly, the promoter has a perpetual glint in his eye and the actors are campy.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2018
• This story of bumbling boors, chiseling social climbers, and simpering fops gallivanting and scheming around the London countryside is crisply performed by a uniformly excellent cast.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2017
• Rory O’Malley is a hoot and a half as the megalomaniacal monarch of the piece, delivering a tour-de-fop as King George.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2017
• Day's Sir Harcourt, with his ebony-dyed locks and effete manners, shares lineage with the fops of Restoration comedy.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
• The brothers support the FOP's dream to create a permanent memorial.
  — Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• The foolish fop (Casey Hoekstra) taking him on insults Cyrano’s plain appearance.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2017
• Meanwhile, a troop of ever-so-proper Dragoon Guards returns to town, and the soldiers are bemused to find all their betrotheds besotted with this fancified fop.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2017
• Ferry, by nature shy and self-effacing, reinvented himself as a fop with issues.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• This 1836 work — in which a witless fop is assumed to be a powerful state functionary by corrupt politicians in the provinces — infuses scathing satire with giddy surrealism.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• The surrounding players are exaggerated, one-note caricatures; Barrie’s wife is a superficial shrew, her lover is a fop, the grandmother is stern and matronly, the promoter has a perpetual glint in his eye and the actors are campy.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2018
• This story of bumbling boors, chiseling social climbers, and simpering fops gallivanting and scheming around the London countryside is crisply performed by a uniformly excellent cast.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2017

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