No one could stop eating them (or better yet, sopping up the sauce with bread).

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Good bread, for scooping up bites and sopping up juices, makes a meal of things.

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But they went out on the sand anyway and began sopping up the oil.

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And of course there have been share issues sopping up any remaining liquidity, notably the Agricultural Bank of China IPO.

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My jeans are sopping wet from a leak in my rain slicker, and my legs are sore--but not as bad as before.

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We climbed back onboard, sopping and smiling, greeted by the bemused Ricardo.

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Once the focus shifts from stopping the leak to sopping up the oil, a big concern will be preventing damage from the cleanup effort itself.

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Yes there were flappers and sopping-wet boozehounds and bootleggers and gangsters.

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In healthy people who are not being treated for cancer, antioxidants can have beneficial effects by sopping up the free radicals linked to aging and other diseases.

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Certainly broiling heat and sopping humidity aren't the draws.

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They can also check when their dorm's peak laundry time is, so they can avoid having their sopping wet clothing taken out of the washer by someone else desperate to use the machine.

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