Sentence examples for because it sops up from inspiring English sources

American foreign assistance concentrates on food aid in part because it sops up U.S. farm surpluses.

Because states are able to levy a 16percentt estate tax at no additional cost to their taxpayers, the tax has become known as a "sop up" or "sponge" tax, since it just sops up the federal credit.

The principle was good: here was a waste product that had to be dealt with, it was free and it sopped up the wet.

It breeds in dung or rot, vomits and spits on its food (that is, our food), then sops up the shake with its spongy mouthparts.

GLUT1 also transports the oxidized form of vitamin C, dehydroascorbic acid (DHA), into the cell, bad news for cancer cells, because Yun found that DHA can deplete a cell's supply of a chemical that sops up free radicals.

He sops up the gore, then throws up at the feet of his squad.

And there's a bonus -- the sturdy rice and beans dish sops up a hangover.

Use it to sop up the rich sauces and moderate the explosive dishes.

Use it to sop up your chop's lovely juices or wipe up the last of the lasagna sauce.

Dan Greenhaus of Miller Tabak said that if prices fell "a bit further" it would sop up some of the excess inventory still weighing on the market.

And it doesn't sop up as much oil as other mushrooms.