[
US
/ˈhɑps/
]
[ UK /hˈɒps/ ]
[ UK /hˈɒps/ ]
NOUN
- twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
How To Use hops In A Sentence
- We cannot support all the shops we have already, so a few more very expensive units can only remain empty and unused.
- This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
- By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
- And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
- The chops should be cooked over moderate heat to prevent excessive charring.
- So many useful shops disappear, to be replaced by a retail outlet that is not welcomed by many of us.
- The wives showed themselves true to stereotype by forever cooking meals containing an abundance of chips and driving to shoe shops in Japanese cabriolets.
- There are no bargains in the clothes shops at the moment.
- Only the bishops have retained the augurial staff, called the crosier; which was the distinctive mark of the dignity of augur; so that the symbol of falsehood has become the symbol of truth. A Philosophical Dictionary
- All of a sudden St. Philip's ten bells start tanging - one oclock already - and at once the workshops and factories around the yard begin disgorging throngs of workers on their way to lunch