How to Use plop down in a Sentence

plop down

verb
  • Paving stones don’t have to be concrete slabs plopped down along your garden.
    — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 22 Apr. 2026
  • One cub, with fuzzy Kahlúa-and-cream fur, plopped down in the water.
    — Crai S. Bower, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Where some cats might hear the sounds and bat their paws at the air, others simply plop down and sleep.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
  • If plopping down on the sand and never leaving the resort is your vacation style, this is the place to do it.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2024
  • The blond boy followed, plopped down into Floppy Hair’s lap, then popped back up and pogoed away.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • But for Jeremiah, the cooks plop down two raspberries and what appears to be cocoa powder.
    — Idaho Statesman, 15 Sep. 2025
  • There’s an omniscient narrator who plops down the facts of Marilyn’s life, vignette-style.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Each piece of wood, in varying shades and shapes, was plopped down one by one to bring the piece to life, resulting in an almost hypnotic design that shows off true marquetry mastery.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Lizzo plops down in a straw chair with familiarity, arranging the many pillows around her and assuming a palms-up position.
    — Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Twenty-seven floors above the hotel lobby, Luka Dončić walks to the table near the floor-length windows, plops down on a chair and, within minutes, is sipping on a double espresso.
    — Dan Woike, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • After being led through the fashion house’s nostalgic pop-up retail activation, Villa Zegna, I was plopped down at a table in the back of the pool deck.
    — Dave Schilling contributing follow, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • Snoop Dogg, the rap rapscallion who puts the OG in Olympic Games, plopped down on a couch in the NBC green room and muted the TV.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Peyton plopped down with Kilgore, Aplin and Louisiana-Lafayette’s Blaine Gautier — far from the biggest names at the camp — one night and had dinner with them.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Her acquisition by Denver is the biggest roster splash yet for an expansion franchise that has made waves from the moment owner Rob Cohen and his ownership group plopped down a record $110 million expansion fee to land the club.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Watching San Diego State’s game Saturday afternoon at Northern Illinois won’t necessarily be as simple as plopping down on the couch and pointing the remote at the TV.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Apparently The Walking Dead’s writers just borrowed this custom to plop down in this Spanish setting and made the Spanish all look Mexican, because hey, one Latin country or another, what’s the difference?
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Last year, Aubrey Pierce walked into a 7-Eleven in north Tampa, plopped down $50, and walked out with a $25,000,000 Gold Rush Multiplier scratch-off ticket.
    — Jack Jankowski, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2026
  • Instead of plopping down a shipping container to create an instant cafe, the company used a 10-ft standard container to house a compact GRIZZLY launcher and fire a Hellfire missile.
    — David Szondy march 25, New Atlas, 25 Mar. 2026

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