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Example sentences for "plop"

Lexicographically close words:
plodders; plodding; plods; plomb; ploo; plopped; plot; plots; plott; plotted
  1. Of course at the first shot there had doubtless been a tremendous plop and a universal view of disappearing hind feet, but they would have got accustomed to it as have we.

  2. Suddenly Castell's oars fell plop into the sea, and he vomited frightfully.

  3. The Sailor was thousands of miles away in the Pacific; the groves of the Island of San Pedro were rising through the morning mists; he could hear the plop-plop of the sharks in the water; he could hear the Old Man coming up on deck.

  4. In the next instant there came another great plop in the water.

  5. For a long, long time he lay stupefied, unable to do anything but listen for the stealthy plop-plop of the sharks in the water.

  6. There was a great plop in the water, much nearer than that of the sharks.

  7. Once again he saw the sharks with their dead-white bellies and heard their continual plop-plop in the water.

  8. At seven the plop of the feet of carriage-horses was heard, and a moment later Louis, the butler, was opening the door.

  9. One might have said of him quite truly that the tinkle of car-bells and the plop of plodding horses' feet was in his blood.

  10. I heard the plop of a cork being drawn from a bottle; a pungent odor assailed my nostrils, choked me.

  11. There was a faint plop as the protecting white globe upon his head was shattered.

  12. Naghugalbut ang íyang sapátus sa lápuk, His shoes went plop plop in the mud.

  13. In the little silence that followed I heard the plop plop of the waves against the side of the yacht.

  14. The plop plop of the shoes ceased suddenly, and we slackened speed.

  15. At these times there was nothing to hear but the plop of little waves against the side of the ship, a tread on deck, and the call of the watch.

  16. We were under weigh again; there was a heel to port, and a more rapid plop of the waters along the carvel planks.

  17. Our night was disturbed by the swish-plop of gas shells, but none came near enough seriously to disquiet us.

  18. The swish and plop of gas shells in the valley towards which we were descending made me pause.

  19. That snowball plop against the pane spoiled my best sentence.

  20. The soft plop-plop of hoofs grew louder, two forms loomed out of the darkness, a horse shied, a man swore.

  21. The road at that point had not been long enclosed, and a broad strip of common still survived on either hand, so that moving on this the horse's hoofs made no sound save a soft plop-plop where the ground was wettest.

  22. The plop of a water-rat in the pond that occupied the rock-garden in the middle of the lawn brought him back to earth, and the Vicar's invitation to tea flashed across his mind.

  23. There was a sharp, odd sound like the plop of a water-rat in a pond.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.