Example sentences for: popped

How can you use “popped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sweat popped out on his head in the close-up glare of television lights.

  • USA Today brings a characteristic "human touch" to all the dry legal news, noting that moments after the Court announced the Internet ruling, "a staffer for groups opposing the law popped a disk containing the opinion into his laptop computer outside the court and transmitted it by cellular modem to an Internet site."

  • (Cooper allegedly filled balloons with live worms, released them above the audience, then popped them, showering fans with night crawlers.)

  • Imagine my chagrin then, to read an AP story that had popped up over the same weekend that several Republican presidential candidates had pledged to oppose allowing gays and lesbians to adopt children, same-sex relationships under the term "marriage," discussion of homosexuality in schools, and federal laws to specifically protect homosexuals from discrimination, part of an overall effort by a dozen anti-gay groups in this latest election cycle.

  • Growing up in a suburb that was as new as I was old, I resented the short specimen saplings that dotted our lawn and the neat rows of perky yellow daffodils that popped up from the wood chips in the kidney-shaped beds each spring.


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