Sentence examples for lop from inspiring English sources
The word 'lop' is a correct and usable term in written English
It can be used as a verb, meaning to cut off branches, leaves, or other parts from a plant or tree, usually with the intention of shaping or pruning it. Example: The gardener lopped off the dead branches from the tree to promote healthy growth. It can also be used as a noun, referring to the act of cutting off branches or wood. Example: The carpenter used a sharp saw for the lop of the log to create the perfect shape for the table.
verb
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
The Ebola crisis is expected to lop off as much as $6bn from the GDP output of the entire sub-Saharan region in 2015, despite the fact that the economic output of all three countries put together is equivalent to less than 1% of the GDP of the entire continent.
In a world where men now seem ready to lop off their own Johnsons rather than have sex, Cody's violent new high school sex comedy horror movie, Jennifer's Body, should fit in nicely.
The Ebola crisis is expected to lop off as much as $6bn off the GDP output of the entire sub-Saharan region in 2015 The borderline hysterical media reaction to the Ebola epidemic – much of it spurred by the unlikely incursion of the virus into the US and UK – can be explained because it dovetails with this familiar narrative.
And if he were to meet me, even for a few moments," the one-time stripper turned screenwriter adds in a sweeter, more conciliatory tone, "perhaps he could be persuaded not to lop off his Johnson".
Stagnant nominal wages are one reason to doubt such sunny predictions, and for very many families – and the poor especially – the Conservative vow to lop £12bn annually off "welfare" in just two years will be just as important.
I've watched my young friend Mikaela lop the head off of Peru's most poisonous snake with a machete without a second thought.
She kept control of the pace better, but the questions were lop-sided and at times odd.
In an extremely lop-sided tournament, qualification from Group C will mean a quarter-final against a side form Group D, the second strongest group.
But the political benefits have been horribly lop-sided.
MTV, which went global on the assumption that "A-lop-bop-a-doo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom" meant the same in every language, now includes five calls to prayer a day in its Indonesian schedules.This tendency towards a uniform global model is as acute at the top schools as anywhere.
He could have accomplished none of it, however, without identifying another golden opportunity in that lop-sided era: the surplus capital in America and the greedy speculative spirit that accompanied it.As Foreign Affairs put it in 1930, "the world war enriched America and impoverished Europe".
