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Meanings of sops in English

Spanish
sopa

Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.

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        Usage of sops in English
        1
        Labour fattens with sops, develops a spirit of greed and production languishes.
        Nobody's Man
        2
        Those milk-sops on the jury are just capable of according him extenuating circumstances.
        The Lerouge Case
        3
        Such were the sops with which he sought to quench his vindictive rage.
        The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series
        4
        And so he brought him, and he made sops therein and ate them.
        Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2
        5
        Those two sops sit 'round here too long, they get lazy.
        Speaks the Nightbird
        6
        But sorry later, there being nought else but sops and wine.
        "The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
        7
        But one has to give occasional sops to the domestic tyrant.'
        Missing
        8
        It's only milk-sops who run to mammy with every little bother.
        Choice Readings for the Home Circle
        9
        We give no sops here: what do you take us for?
        Vivian Grey
        10
        The old woman gave her sops of bread soaked in wine.
        The Secret Eleanor
        11
        Reform proponents said the suggestions were sops to industry and he withdrew its report.
        Reuters
        12
        The OECD estimates that diesel sops alone costs the government three percent of GDP.
        Reuters
        13
        He is a whole-souled, whole-hearted, right-minded young man, worth a dozen of your fashionable milk-sops.
        Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
        14
        It will also try to pass an interim budget expected to contain pre-election sops for voters.
        Reuters
        15
        They are children in the gormandizing way; loving sugar, sops, tarts, trifles, apricot-creams, and such gewgaws.
        The Fitz-Boodle Papers
        16
        In a country where corporate rigidity is only slowly easing, the sops could be satisfying enough.
        Reuters
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        Spanish
        sopa
        Sops through the time