soap

I listened to that thing over and over again, until I spilled a bottle of soap in my tape deck and ruined it.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The track was used as the wedding theme in an episode of the Australian soap opera “Neighbours,” in which characters Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell got married.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The orange make-up could now be washed off with soap and water, the shoes were more comfortable and the chocolate river was no longer full of cigarette ends discarded by crew members.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Tune into a smartphone soap opera: Are we entering a new phase of television?

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

There was never enough soap, and sometimes not even enough water.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

In those studies, the researchers developed approaches for converting other types of plastic waste into surfactants used in products such as soaps and detergents.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

Far from seeming like a steely leader in a rigorous era, he instead recalls all those gentle, soft, pouty-lipped dreamboats who pop up interchangeably in young-adult soaps on the streaming services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The tile that they landed on has six layers of brighteners, soaps and stain and odor fighters that activate and interact with each other only when they get wet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Bhojwani is among millions of Indians across big cities and small towns avidly watching micro-dramas, which mostly have cliched plots and exaggerated acting styles similar to Hindi TV soaps.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

I lie back, listening to the soaps, and after a little I try finding it again, and my stupid radio will pick up every Chicago station except the one carrying the football game.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

“In the stables, the Queen’s horses were again at the ready, coats groomed, saddles and bridles soaped and stirrups polished,’’ Dimbleby wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022

Rhoda soaped a washcloth and began to scrub beneath the folds of her daughter’s skin.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2015

Actually, according to the Post, he “took some large metal pans that did not appear to be dirty, soaped them up and rinsed them…as the cameras clicked and the TV cameras rolled.”

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2012

The tune "Sticky Situation," for instance, mushrooms into the spectacle of a half-dozen boys getting their mouths soaped by moms.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2010

They soaped windows, smashed carved pumpkins, and toilet-papered bushes.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

Exuberant young men splashing around in a pool with one theatrically soaping himself as a crowd cheered.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024

Set up an assembly line from soaping and scrubbing to rinsing to drying.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Doing it while a shower is running and then soaping up, thus creating a steamy-sudsy environment, would be even better for masking the odors your body produces.

From Slate ● May 25, 2020

He enumerates some pleasures of life on the outside — sleeping on comfortable sheets, soaping up a loofah sponge in the shower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2020

We would stand or squat in these buckets, soaping ourselves with the brackish water, rinsing off the dust from the day.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela