How to Use lop in a Sentence

lop

1 of 2 noun

• Ohio State will peak, and see the team that handed the Buckeyes their most lop-sided loss of the season.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 9 Nov. 2017
• Lopez was batting only because Counsell needed more innings out of him in a lop-sided game to save the rest of the bullpen.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2018
• Penny, a 2 1/2-year-old French lop, loved every minute of it and happily relaxed while receiving her makeover.
  — sacbee, 5 Jan. 2018
• Alex is especially fond of Marshmallow, 2-year-old Holland lop-eared rabbit.
  — Joe Habina, charlotteobserver, 21 May 2017
• Poundstone, who reveals her personal life as a working single mother of three children as well as the cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny and one ant, sold out her 2013 performance at the Guthrie Theater.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
• Ohio State will peak, and see the team that handed the Buckeyes their most lop-sided loss of the season.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 9 Nov. 2017
• Lopez was batting only because Counsell needed more innings out of him in a lop-sided game to save the rest of the bullpen.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2018
• Penny, a 2 1/2-year-old French lop, loved every minute of it and happily relaxed while receiving her makeover.
  — sacbee, 5 Jan. 2018
• Alex is especially fond of Marshmallow, 2-year-old Holland lop-eared rabbit.
  — Joe Habina, charlotteobserver, 21 May 2017
• Poundstone, who reveals her personal life as a working single mother of three children as well as the cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny and one ant, sold out her 2013 performance at the Guthrie Theater.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
• Ohio State will peak, and see the team that handed the Buckeyes their most lop-sided loss of the season.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 9 Nov. 2017
• Lopez was batting only because Counsell needed more innings out of him in a lop-sided game to save the rest of the bullpen.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2018
• Penny, a 2 1/2-year-old French lop, loved every minute of it and happily relaxed while receiving her makeover.
  — sacbee, 5 Jan. 2018
• Alex is especially fond of Marshmallow, 2-year-old Holland lop-eared rabbit.
  — Joe Habina, charlotteobserver, 21 May 2017
• Poundstone, who reveals her personal life as a working single mother of three children as well as the cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny and one ant, sold out her 2013 performance at the Guthrie Theater.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017

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lop

2 of 2 verb

• What is the best way to lop about 1 foot of height off?
  — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2023
• On the screen, Aldrin was loping in a circle on the surface of the moon in front of the LM.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
• Mercedes did more than just lop off the 300 SL’s top, of course.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2021
• The 47-year-old homeless man’s hands had been lopped off.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• One after the other, the black slash of my pen like a sword lopped them off.
  — David Rabe, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• In fact, in the last three weeks, the Sox have lopped 2½ games off their deficit to the Jays and two from their gap with the Astros.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• Joevia and Tax went to the lead and loped along down the backstretch.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
• In mid-spring, before the plants start to show signs of flowers, lop off the two- to three-foot-high stalks.
  — Bon Appétit, 29 Apr. 2022
• Use lopping shears and hand tools to avoid the squared or rounded look.
  — Courtney Ortega, star-telegram, 9 Feb. 2018
• The staff cuts are part of a plan to lop $3 billion off the company’s costs this year.
  — Keith Naughton, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
• The staff cuts are part of a plan to lop $3 billion off the company's costs this year.
  — Bloomberg News, NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
• The Vietnamese lopped off a thumb without pain killers.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• Some fish retain their heads, some have been lopped off.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• By the end of the movie, Luke is rescued but his hand has been lopped off and their friend has been captured.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• But just as the Green Knight raises his ax to lop off his head, Gawain runs home, where Arthur crowns him king.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2021
• Spitty loped down the ramp lazily and splashed in after it.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 18 June 2018
• The bulk of the narrative feels like the middle of a story stretched out over two hours, with the ending lopped off.
  — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• And guess who was seen loping into the White House on Thursday?
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2019
• With his knife, Carl would lop off hazel branches and make walking sticks for us.
  — Mark Hutchinson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• While some machetes are designed to swing through grass, or lop off limbs, a heavy-brush blade needs to be built for the long haul.
  — Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2021
• Even with four degrees lopped off of it, Wednesday’s high of 99 degrees was still a record for Oct. 2.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 6 Oct. 2019
• Below, dozens of brown bears dug clams, ate sedge grass and loped across tidal flats, ready for chum salmon to arrive.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• Most people just lop off the entire top to remove the tough hull, but that wastes so much precious fruit.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 25 July 2017
• Most people just lop off the entire top to remove the tough hull, but that wastes so much precious fruit.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
• And measuring whether the neutron is or isn't close to the platform lops off half of the original wave.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 10 July 2018
• With the weather heating up, this is a sweet way to lop off extra layers, but with a sweet, fresh twist.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2022
• To do so, each team had to first figure out how to stabilize the stalk after lopping off the head.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2017
• The franchise lopped off several rows from the upper deck.
  — Gregory Pratt, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• But the pub had changed ownership and nobody had heard of a kid named Mikey who loped around on one leg, a boy with a ready smile and sweet heart.
  — Nicky Radcliffe, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• The high-tech machine digs up brown sugar beets, lops off their tops, and conveys them to an onboard storage bin.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024