How to Use soap opera in a Sentence

soap opera

noun
  • She loves to watch daytime soap operas.
  • Dallas is a soap opera from the 1970s that aired on CBS.
    Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The Crown is now more of a soap opera than ever before.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The renewal takes the soap opera through to its 55th season.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
  • As fans may know, the couple met on the set of the longtime-running soap opera in 1995.
    Rebecca Norris, Good Housekeeping, 22 Apr. 2022
  • In the wake of his death, Miller’s former soap opera co-stars paid tribute to the actor.
    Ariana Brockington, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The antics of the gods on Mount Olympus would rival the plot of the most salacious soap opera.
    Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Zucker has starred as Nicole Walker on the soap opera since 1998.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Baker and Rigg met in the early 1990s and went on to star in the Australian soap opera, E Street.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • That was the beginning of a soap opera that cast doubt on his future in Green Bay.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
  • That was when baseball was king and the Sox were an irresistible 12-month soap opera.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Well, in the SEC there is always a soap opera playing out inside the drama.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The pair met in 1985 working on the soap opera Loving and married just six months later.
    Kara Nesvig, Peoplemag, 8 Oct. 2023
  • There have been many episodes of this unfortunate soap opera over the years.
    Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2024
  • Musk will now own the Twitter platform as an end to this saga and soap opera that began in April.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • To be a soap opera heroine is to be a virgin, especially in the Nineties.
    Maitland Ward, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
  • What if the non-source music swells and bursts like the melodramatic score of a soap opera at times?
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
  • For the first time in 35 years, a soap opera will have a predominantly Black cast.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Peacock is about to get a dose of daytime soap opera drama.
    Lillian Rizzo, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • By the end, the tale has blossomed into a Homeric soap opera.
    Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The way Wolf Bradley met Andrew Macatrao sounds like the beginnings of a teen soap opera.
    Ilana Kaplan, SPIN, 10 May 2022
  • This world—a soap opera of excess and corruption playing non-stop through the New York of the nineties—was Trump’s, too.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The final introduction was to a TV star on a soap opera that was playing in the day room.
    Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The Simmons saga is behind the Sixers, who can move on from the daily soap opera that hung over the franchise.
    Dan Gelston, ajc, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Upon news of his death, stars of the soap opera also paid tribute to their long-term colleague.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Just because a character dies on a soap opera doesn’t mean they’re gone for good.
    Abby Stern, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
  • That's because the soap opera killed off the iconic character this week.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Her first large role was on the legendary soap opera EastEnders.
    Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 21 Sep. 2021
  • That’s a regular season thing where the soap opera can carry the ratings.
    Ben Golliver, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Also, a few more words on the Cassava Sciences’ soap opera.
    Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 25 July 2024

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