Explore Sopping through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like soaking or drenched. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sopping meaning
Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
Using Sopping
- The main meaning on this page is: Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
- Useful related words include: soaking, drenched, saturated, soaked.
- In the example corpus, sopping often appears in combinations such as: for sopping, sopping up, sopping wet.
Context around Sopping
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sopping
- In this selection, "sopping" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, remained, small and wet stand out and add context to how "sopping" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ciabatta for sopping and garden is sopping from all. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sopping" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sopping
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But without the sun, they remained sopping wet. (8 words)
A slice of garlicky toast with the dish was perfect for sopping up extra sauce. (15 words)
The mussels ($7) felt like yet another bargain, with a sauce that begged for more ciabatta for sopping. (18 words)
We tidy up, my husband goes for a run while I play with the kids and the dog in the garden, we have great craic although the garden is sopping from all the rain which has brought grass cuttings pretty much everywhere in the house. (45 words)
Coming soon will be prepared dishes including fancy toasts, egg dishes, salads, beans-and-greens bowls and stewed vegetables – “things good for sopping” with the delicious house breads, in Michaels’ words. (31 words)
If you think that sopping up the garlicky, winy sauce with a hunk of bread is the pinnacle of shrimp scampi, Ali Slagle is about to rock your world. (29 words)
Example sentences (7)
A slice of garlicky toast with the dish was perfect for sopping up extra sauce.
Coming soon will be prepared dishes including fancy toasts, egg dishes, salads, beans-and-greens bowls and stewed vegetables – “things good for sopping” with the delicious house breads, in Michaels’ words.
If you think that sopping up the garlicky, winy sauce with a hunk of bread is the pinnacle of shrimp scampi, Ali Slagle is about to rock your world.
We tidy up, my husband goes for a run while I play with the kids and the dog in the garden, we have great craic although the garden is sopping from all the rain which has brought grass cuttings pretty much everywhere in the house.
But without the sun, they remained sopping wet.
The mussels ($7) felt like yet another bargain, with a sauce that begged for more ciabatta for sopping.
As rain pelted the area on Thursday, Alex Mendes gingerly picked up his small sopping wet tent and moved it to one side.
Common combinations with sopping
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- for sopping 3×
- sopping up 2×
- sopping wet 2×