How to Use bop in a Sentence

bop

1 of 2 verb
  • Fans were on their feet bopping along.
    — CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • No need to bop people about their mindful heads on this.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Despite the fun theme, this show failed to bop its way to the top of our rankings.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 5 Apr. 2023
  • No agents of the state will yank you out of a stadium for bopping along to this!
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Still bopping to the top, 20 years later!
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Mowry could be seen bopping her head back and forth, shimmying her hips and even adding a few snaps.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2024
  • They could be seen bopping along to the tunes from their seats with Union Flags in hand.
    — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • The camera scans across the crowd, fans beaming and bopping along to every word.
    — Isabelia Herrera, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The dance floor was filled with bopping fans as the opening band played Spanish rock.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • And then there were a bunch of tweens and teens gathered in front of the screen who were just bopping around and singing their hearts out.
    — Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Cohen played the song for less than one chorus’s worth of time, bopping along to it with (off-beat) full-body squats.
    — Vulture, 27 June 2023
  • Rats have a human-like sense of rhythm and can bop their heads in time to musical beats, a new study suggests.
    — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Try not to bop your head and tap your feet while listening to Weezer's new album.
    — Gary Dinges, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The spring action works well, and babies can really bop up and down just by bending their knees.
    — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The handful of cops were bopping to Michael Jackson.
    — Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • Ortiz bopped 208 in his first five seasons with the Red Sox.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • The sea of heads bopped rhythmically and bodies swayed wildly.
    — Ope Adetayo, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The sea of heads bopped rhythmically and bodies swayed wildly.
    — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • In the next slide, David listened to the track back, bopping his head and smiling, pleased with the recording.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The clip showed her and her new wife bopping along at their sweetheart table and glimpses of their verdant indoor party.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The guys' trademark move is bopping their heads in unison as the Haddaway hit plays throughout the sketch.
    — Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Often center stage, Tess would bop around and dance in place, sometimes whipping her hair around while plucking at her bass.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Throw a linen shirt over the look and—voila—an adorable daytime look for bopping around Seapoint Main Road.
    — Abbey Hudetz, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The energy was infectious, and the crowd still sang along, bouncing their shoulders and bopping their heads.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • As the night went on, partygoers took to the dance floor to bop along to a DJ set from Aldave.
    — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 18 May 2026
  • Viewers are going to be bopped about the head and under no uncertain terms will realize that the product is there in the movie.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • According to onlookers, the Wicked star was bopping along the entire set.
    — Stacy Lambe, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • People ate off paper plates, added hot sauce from squeeze bottles and bopped their heads under purple lights, pausing now and then to toss back an oyster.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Members of the audience bop their heads along to the iconic music of the period, a playlist that is notably White.
    — Meg Jacobs, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The first violins unfurl a lilting, lightly bopping tune in D minor.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

bop

2 of 2 noun
  • All in all, the show bops along quite tastily.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • The album is filled with a dozen catchy, fun pop bops.
    — Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Now, to be fair, the album is top-to-bottom bops.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Belle coos with a too-flirty smile and a nervous side-to-side bop.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Will the soundtrack contain new bops?
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The 15-track album is a bop that'll bring back a bit of nostalgia.
    — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Both are anthemic bro country bops in English.
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Or a bop, or a folk tale, or a battle cry, or a 10-minute coming of age song about a scarf.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • His ever-moving fingers bluesing the boundaries between modal bop soul and gospel.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But this time, La Zarra brought a bop, suspended high above the ground in a glittery gown.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2023
  • The precision of her stunts come right on time and feel perfectly on brand for the Britney bop.
    — Paul McCallion, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The club bop comes seven months after the pop star first surprised fans with a new cover of Glory.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Davis went on to pioneer an array of jazz styles, including cool, hard bop, modal and fusion.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • Together, the pop stars craft a down-tempo breakup bop about leaving boring exes.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The song goes full fanfare, with bells, whistles and everything in-between for a head-spinning dance bop.
    — Cristina Jaleru, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • And just like that, Chris Pratt is a 2008 bop from the Ting Tings.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 27 June 2022
  • But when Pink convinced Perry to work with her, the girls' night out-ready bop was a natural fit.
    — Lanford Beard, PEOPLE.com, 20 Nov. 2021
  • There’s a guy getting choked out with a toilet seat while an adult baby bops Sam Richardson over the head.
    — Vulture, 24 May 2023
  • And slang used to denigrate women—such as bop or for the streets—has proliferated.
    — Molly Langmuir, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Even the choreography has bop-till-you-drop Tik Tok energy.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
  • These are the artists whose aggressive improvisation, rhythmic thrust and fiery soloing put hard bop on the map.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • In support of for her album full of dance, disco, and house bops, Beyoncé dressed to the nines for each and every stop.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Clarinets, trumpets, güiras, and other instruments shine in the hip-shaking bop.
    — Billboard, 5 Aug. 2021
  • My uncle, Richard Harris, had an extensive collection of jazz that ranged from hard-bop to cool.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Conversations took place behind sliding wooden doors in half-private rooms over a steady current of vintage hard bop.
    — New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • But Blood Orange’s mid-tempo bops are intoxicating, to be sure.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • TikTok bop of the year, TikTok songwriter of the year and best comeback album.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Thanks to Kelly Clarkson, Christmas is coming early (very early) and in the form of a sassy bop.
    — Andrea Towers, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Many of the categories will be socially fan-voted, like with TikTok bop of the year, favorite on screen and best fan army.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • From a best friend anthem to a brainy bop, this collection of tunes from Karma shows her singing, shining and freestyling alongside friends and family.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 12 June 2022

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