HOP in a Sentence

Learn HOP from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For HOP, below is one of 54 sentences:
Can't be helped, Marmee, so you must resign yourself to all sorts of worries, and let your birds hop out of the nest, one by one.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hop
 v.  travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
 v.  jump lightly
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  We used to hop out of the woods and go charging down on hog-drivers and women in carts taking garden stuff to market, but we never hived any of them.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III.
2  Can't be helped, Marmee, so you must resign yourself to all sorts of worries, and let your birds hop out of the nest, one by one.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
3  "Old Flimsy on the hop," said David.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
4  Let's see how fast you can make her hop it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
5  Next, his delight led him gracefully to execute a hop in ballet fashion, so that the wardrobe trembled and a bottle of eau-de-Cologne came crashing to the floor.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
6  He hopped about and pecked the earth briskly, looking for seeds and insects.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  The robin hopped about busily pecking the soil and now and then stopped and looked at them a little.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  He began to dig again, driving his spade deep into the rich black garden soil while the robin hopped about very busily employed.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  He twittered and chirped and hopped along the wall as if he were telling her all sorts of things.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  Mary began to laugh, and as he hopped and took little flights along the wall she ran after him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  He was very pert and lively, and hopped about so close to her feet, and put his head on one side and looked at her so slyly that she asked Ben Weatherstaff a question.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  She chirped, and talked, and coaxed and he hopped, and flirted his tail and twittered.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  The robin flew down from his tree-top and hopped about or flew after her from one bush to another.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  His red waistcoat was as glossy as satin and he flirted his wings and tail and tilted his head and hopped about with all sorts of lively graces.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  He hopped closer and closer and looked at Ben Weatherstaff more and more engagingly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  I couldn't put my weight on my ankle and had to hop everywhere.
2  I tried to hop on my good foot while holding onto Jim.
3  He had hurt his left foot and had to hop along.
4  His plans almost caught security chiefs and hotel staff on the hop.
5  The duke told him to make himself free and easy, and if anybody ever come meddling around, he must hop out of the wigwam, and carry on a little, and fetch a howl or two like a wild beast, and he reckoned they would light out and leave him alone.
6  There are about 35 different kinds of extinct kangaroos in these deposits, none of them looked like anything we know today because they didn't hop.
7  They have a clown-like personality and are known to hop rather than run.
8  She hopped across the room because she had hurt her foot.
9  Before race,every horse must be examined to check if she was hopped.
10  He hopped around the cabin considerable, first on one leg and then on the other, holding first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot all of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick.
11  He was hopping from foot to foot.
12  The little girl ran off, hopping and skipping as she went.