How to Use lop in a Sentence

lop

1 of 2 noun
  • Ohio State will peak, and see the team that handed the Buckeyes their most lop-sided loss of the season.
    — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 9 Nov. 2017
  • Lopez was batting only because Counsell needed more innings out of him in a lop-sided game to save the rest of the bullpen.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Penny, a 2 1/2-year-old French lop, loved every minute of it and happily relaxed while receiving her makeover.
    — sacbee, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Alex is especially fond of Marshmallow, 2-year-old Holland lop-eared rabbit.
    — Joe Habina, charlotteobserver, 21 May 2017
  • Stale Solbakken’s Norway, at their first World Cup since 1998, like to attack lop-sided.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Unsurprisingly, Red Bull has the most lop-sided intra-team battle in F1 this season so far.
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The flame-wielder is a tough match for Mecha Man, necessitating some extrajudicial aggression as Robert lops off two of his opponent’s fingers with a beam saber.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Especially after watching Vegas lop Bruce Cassidy, who led the Golden Knights to a Stanley Cup title in 2023, and replace him with John Tortorella.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026

lop

2 of 2 verb
  • Use lopping shears and hand tools to avoid the squared or rounded look.
    — Courtney Ortega, star-telegram, 9 Feb. 2018
  • One after the other, the black slash of my pen like a sword lopped them off.
    — David Rabe, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • Kentucky lopped 10 cents off in May.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 28 May 2026
  • With his knife, Carl would lop off hazel branches and make walking sticks for us.
    — Mark Hutchinson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • So what do owners see when there’s talk of lopping three or four home games off the schedule?
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In mid-spring, before the plants start to show signs of flowers, lop off the two- to three-foot-high stalks.
    — Bon Appétit, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Below, dozens of brown bears dug clams, ate sedge grass and loped across tidal flats, ready for chum salmon to arrive.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Joevia and Tax went to the lead and loped along down the backstretch.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
  • The staff cuts are part of a plan to lop $3 billion off the company’s costs this year.
    — Keith Naughton, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
  • The staff cuts are part of a plan to lop $3 billion off the company's costs this year.
    — Bloomberg News, NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
  • Just look for dead or damaged branches to lop off, but leave those tender branches alone.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Trump did not spell out the word in full in his post, instead opting to lop off the final G.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Most people just lop off the entire top to remove the tough hull, but that wastes so much precious fruit.
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
  • Most people just lop off the entire top to remove the tough hull, but that wastes so much precious fruit.
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 25 July 2017
  • By the end of the movie, Luke is rescued but his hand has been lopped off and their friend has been captured.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • While some machetes are designed to swing through grass, or lop off limbs, a heavy-brush blade needs to be built for the long haul.
    — Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Mercedes did more than just lop off the 300 SL’s top, of course.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2021
  • With the weather heating up, this is a sweet way to lop off extra layers, but with a sweet, fresh twist.
    — Elle Turner, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Parents may be tempted to lop off the asymmetrical-faced end of this.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2012
  • Use lopping shears to remove a lot of the twiggy internal growth.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 26 Mar. 2020
  • To do so, each team had to first figure out how to stabilize the stalk after lopping off the head.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2017
  • The title grants him enough parkour powers to run up the speechless invaders and lop their heads off.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Blades lop off body parts, while blunt force trauma breaks bones and bashes indentations in soft flesh.
    — Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The bulk of the narrative feels like the middle of a story stretched out over two hours, with the ending lopped off.
    — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Use lopping shears to remove all the stubbly dead or unneeded branches one at a time.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Instead of lopping off the tops of fruits and veggies and tossing them, remove only the core.
    — Gia Mora, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
  • And guess who was seen loping into the White House on Thursday?
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2019
  • And measuring whether the neutron is or isn't close to the platform lops off half of the original wave.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 10 July 2018
  • Probably more than 50 percent of the costs listed in this story can be lopped off.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2018
  • One of the locals, loping along in the heat, was a small, brownish animal, with pointy ears and long legs made for running.
    — Marta Zaraska, Scientific American, 21 May 2018

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