NOUN
- a serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products)
How To Use soap opera In A Sentence
- Or did her pushy mother and absent father turn her life into a sordid soap opera? Times, Sunday Times
- Much of recent news coverage is sensationalized like soap operas.
- In my resultant article I actually compared Montreal to an afternoon soap opera - a punchy, passionate, sentimental place full of ridiculous arguments and beautiful women.
- Leicester inhabits the world of the policy wonk, the person who provides the meat of politics, while staying out of the soap opera of characters which dominate the way politics is often perceived through the media.
- The group's send-ups of Latin American soap operas on stilts and unicycles have also drawn attention.
- Guiding Light to go dark -- The longest-running soap opera will call it quits in September. Short Takes
- These African actors say until their awareness campaign pays off, they'll pay the rent by working soap operas on radio.
- Thankfully, the four young leads give suitably heartfelt and believable performances, giving an otherwise schlocky teen soap opera the pleasing illusion of quality.
- Roxie Hart is about as far away as one can get from the earnest soap operatics of Kitty Foyle.
- It certainly gives me hope that there is a little romance to be found in the world for us normal people, without all the glitz and glamour of a soap opera.