sop

sop up the water with a towel

he used some bread to sop up the sauce.

sop up water with a paper towel.

my agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work.

I'm not listening to a bunch of sorry sops phoning in and asking for Celine Dion pablum to ease their broken hearts.

The series isn't a sop to conservative values, or at least it's not only that.

The Tory proposals look like a sop to them, ahead of an election.

" It's better when there's stew to sop up, " said Lem.

Scarlett sopped the wheat cake in the gravy and put it in her mouth.

Fern's sneakers were sopping by the time she caught up with her father.

For Mr Ben Ali, and to a lesser extent Mr Mubarak, defending women's rights was a useful sop to the West.

" Poor Charlotte will be sopped, " was Lucy's reply.

Emerging, from his goblet, coughing, sopping wet but still grinning, he saw something calculated to raise his spirits even higher.

And sopped their gravy with his biscuits.

'I used to sop bread down in the drops our Dad left.