How to Use slop in a Sentence

slop

1 of 2 noun
  • This was the year of rot, slop and rage.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Because, so far, that plot is slop.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • The slop has now sustained through two weeks.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a lot of AI slop out there.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 26 May 2026
  • In pop culture, this was the year of rot, slop and rage.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
  • These slop feeds, of course, are full of their own problems.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Add a little vanilla dust to your slop.
    — Felipe Torres Medina, New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Or does everything start to look like slop?
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Now they’re being clogged with AI slop.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • No one wants to find slop under the Christmas tree.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Much of Facebook is nothing but slop.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • People get mired in all kinds of muck and yuck by the slop on social media.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Editors failed to see the slop, and many readers were duped too.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • In other words, the slop is coming from inside the house.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • For now, there’s decent money in it for slop merchants.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • One man opened a bin with the swipe of a card, emptied his bucket of slop and returned home.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • And from my viewpoint, my wheels still spinning in the slop, that new path was anything but clear.
    — CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • The port would also re-grade the slop and build a massive bulkhead along the river.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2021
  • One of the slop-makers was trying to temper their message, too.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
  • But beating Harbaugh demands rolling in the slop.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Embrace the spillage of slop into the physical world.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Both teams are coming off emotional losses, so there could be some slop early.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The flood of slop may very well be the first step toward which future models begin to degrade.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Yes, there’s concern about AI slop at a product level.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 26 May 2026
  • Is part of it because of the way these AI slop videos are pushed out to people online?
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
  • An egg, dropped in a slop of melting butter, was crisping up from a cloudy white into a golden brown.
    — Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That level of slop can’t be pinned exclusively on one person.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Even audiences who seek no more than a few dumb yoks deserve better than this dreary level of slop.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Anyway, all of that is small potatoes compared to the slop currently being sold in the team store.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • That was definitely the really fun part for us, just rolling around like pigs in the slop of our own childhood.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2022

slop

2 of 2 verb
  • Huge waves slopped water into the boat.
  • She slopped coffee on her sweater.
  • And waves will slop up the rocks at places like Sunset Cliffs.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Judging from the way Sam slopped wine into the glasses, at least five or six bottles.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • If that seems a bit too spicy, simply brown your ground beef, slop a heaping helping on some Texas toast, and pile on some Cheddar cheese.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 June 2023
  • If that seems a bit too spicy, simply brown your ground beef, slop a heaping helping on some Texas toast, and pile on some Cheddar cheese.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 June 2023
  • The oldest of five children, Packard spent his days after school milking cows, slopping pigs and digging potatoes.
    — Lacey Latch, AZCentral.com, 30 Apr. 2023
  • From a field somewhere comes the faint cry of new wild kittens and water slops over the edge of the swimming pool, sending white butterflies into the air.
    — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024
  • But muddy conditions led to slop and chaos, and tired out the front-runners after a very fast opening pace, clearing the way for the closer to do his thing.
    — Peter Keating, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • Capitalism and competition create wealth; other systems slop existing wealth around.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2020
  • In the season-two premiere’s final moments, the group’s s’mores-making endeavor descends into gooey chaos, with everyone burning and slopping and dripping marshmallow, chocolate, and peanut butter everywhere.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025

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