plop

Need to plop your children in front of something?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The incident has left city officials scratching their heads as to how the creature crossed the 210 Freeway and decided to plop down in a heavily populated residential area surrounded by major streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Perhaps the loudest: lobbyists and salespeople who have used open seating to zero in on a prospective client or lawmaker and plop down next to them for an in-flight pitch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

In order to sit next to a stranger, I’d have to eschew vast stretches of empty stools and plop down right beside them like a creep, hitting on unsuspecting old people.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025

And suddenly, with the water, out came the long slimy newt straight into the glass, plop!

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

F1 picks up the paddock—the behind-the-scenes village of garages and other infrastructure—and plops it in Singapore without changing the clocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

If, say, a housing development plops down where you live, you are forced to wander.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

There’s an omniscient narrator who plops down the facts of Marilyn’s life, vignette-style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

He works in a nondescript cubicle in a huge office, and barely gets through one tray of electronic files before a droid plops another on his desk.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

Meanwhile, Ziggy plops down on the sidewalk, panting.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

Phil Trubey, who plopped down $250,000 for a “Founders Series” Roadster, isn’t concerned about how fast it will be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Her son Victor, 11, plopped onto the sidewalk to read his Imagination Library edition of "Llama Llama Red Pajama," a family favorite.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

In the morning, as we ate vegan doughnuts and watched cat cartoons, kitten Asher plopped onto my lap and purred loudly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Things are being plopped down,” said Birnbaum, whose organization sued the administration over the repainting of the Reflecting Pool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Both of them plopped into their seat as the bus pulled away from the curb.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

You can pace around the living room when you’re watching TV instead of plopping down on the couch.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

If raw tomatoes aren’t really your vibe, try your hand at cooking them and plopping an egg, or two.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

For solo travelers or couples, that means plopping down next to strangers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

“It’s been the butt of jokes in every group ski chat I’ve participated in,” Highland Park resident Ethan Ayer said of the idea for heli-skiing, the term for plopping skiers on mountaintops via helicopter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

I hear occasional crashes from the tree line, but each time it’s a lizard plopping into the water or a bird taking flight.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer