How To Use Soapy In A Sentence

  • I have sprayed them a couple of times with soapy water, which kills some of them but doesn't harm beneficial insects like ladybirds.
  • On the sidewalk Soapy began to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice.
  • What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fingers, hands, and the washboard supply the pressure, a process called fulling, and the warm soapy water shrinks the fibers into a compact form.
  • Different-shaped handles, square for hot and round for cold, would permit the soapy-eyed bather to adjust water temperature without alternately scalding or freezing himself.
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  • I've used soapy water, ProTek, a citrus extract that repels insects, and diatomaceous earth applied while the foliage is wet. Seeking a tomato guru
  • Real diamonds have a quite distinctive, soapy texture to the surface and are immune from water.
  • Friedman combined these by twisting wire to form the simplest knot there is - an overhand knot mathematicians call a trefoil - and then dipping it into soapy water. Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
  • You must wash all tackle in hot soapy water, making sure to scrub the reel foot, winch fittings and rod guides.
  • The rock was mostly poor quality shale and mudstone leaving a smooth soapy floor underfoot and this continued for a few hundred metres without respite.
  • Sasha watched as Annie and Patrick blew bubbles by dipping a wand into soapy water.
  • What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
  • She then took her shampoo and squeezed the soapy substance onto her hand, as the smell of roses filled her nostrils.
  • Cut grease and stubborn leftover food from plates and glasses by adding a few lemon slices or a tablespoon of vinegar to soapy dishwater.
  • The unpleasant salty or soapy taste may be masked in flavored or alcoholic beverages.
  • He found the soapy mucus within the vesicles of the Bladderwrack an excellent resolvent, and most useful in dispersing scrofulous swellings. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • I've used soapy water, ProTek, a citrus extract that repels insects, and diatomaceous earth applied while the foliage is wet. Seeking a tomato guru
  • The afternoon was filled with mud, dirt, water, ice, soapy suds and laughter as the students from year 8 to 12 competed with gusto.
  • Doctors recommend a thorough washing of hands with warm soapy water after using the toilet and before preparing foods.
  • Next, dissolve some pure soap flakes in warm water and rub all over the furniture, paying careful attention to the soiled areas, with a towel wrung out in this soapy water.
  • With a soapy hand, Inger swiped back the strand of hair straggling across her forehead and put the final pot into the dishpan.
  • The other side was covered in soapy sponge which he proceeded to jab into my left eye without warning.
  • Relieve discomfort by washing the area gently with warm soapy water, dabbing with soft toilet paper and not scratching.
  • Finally, polish the tiles with soapy water and a rag or sponge to remove the dried-on film of grout.
  • Alex dropped the plate she was washing into the basin and spluttered as the soapy water splashed in her face, stinging her eyes.
  • Put the bottle in soapy water to soak the label off.
  • Real diamonds have a quite distinctive, soapy texture to the surface and are immune from water.
  • Through one of the view ports I watched a young woman wearing rubber boots above her knees scoop up all the, er, used hay, into a rolling cart before she sluiced the floor with soapy water and began to mop.
  • I'm afraid I've never heard of blackfly or greenfly, but I do know that spraying soapy water on the plants is a good way to discourage pests. Plants are Flowering: 2008 Garden Update #5
  • He is not, " said Avery. "He lets me scratch him between the eyes. " The frog jumped and landed in Mrs. Zuckerman's dishpan full of soapy water.
  • Keep a bucket of soapy water and a second sponge to clean the exterior window sill.
  • The show is soapy, pulpy, and often a little bit shameless.
  • Another pic sees her smothered in soapy lather to symbolise the need for face cream and sunscreen. The Sun
  • Put the bottle in soapy water to soak the label off.
  • By immersing it in soapy water, the junk gets dislodged and goes down the drain and out of your life. Scripting News for 10/22/07 « Scripting News Annex
  • The asbestos would be mixed with a soapy material and be subjected to a high temperature.
  • The Soapy-Dope, a mean old monster who lives in a chuckhole beside the road, likes to scare happy little woodland animals.
  • She ran the soapy dishwater and began to sit dishes into the water to let them soak.
  • It is a shallow crescent-shaped vessel of potstone, or what is called soapstone from its soapy feel. Peter the Whaler
  • Always start cooking in a clean kitchen and keep a sink half filled with hot soapy water while you are preparing the meal.
  • So it got a good soaking with soapy water too.
  • The unpleasant salty or soapy taste may be masked in flavored or alcoholic beverages.
  • Thirteen standard, plastic pitfall traps, with soapy solution in the bottom cup, were maintained throughout the stay to sample invertebrates.
  • Remove interior fan covers, and wash in mild soapy water.
  • Alloy wheels can become porous over time due to corrosion caused in part by the weather and salt on the roads, though this can be aggravated by the soapy water some tyre fitters use to help slide new tyres into place.
  • On the sidewalk Soapy began to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice.
  • If you have to use waxed lemons - and they all are, if they aren't expressly labelled ‘unwaxed’ - give them a good scrub under warm soapy water, and rinse well before you zest them.
  • The surface of a soapy water is greasy (low surface tension, arrest of the movements of camphor); it is, therefore, covered at least by a similar layer of oleic acid or oleate, as can be shown by analysing a known quantity of soapy water drawn in the form of laminae having a known total surface area (Jean Perrin, Mouquin). Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture
  • The leads are very attractive and talented, which really helps when the film gets bogged down in soapy theatrics in its second half. 2010 February : Scrubbles.net
  • She immersed her dirty clothes in soapy water.
  • The dirty clothes are soaking in soapy water.
  • Cleaning stainless steel and chrome should be done on a regular basis, and only with warm soapy water, or a cloth dampened with white vinegar.
  • He's too lazy to use a bucket of soapy water and a broom.
  • Soapy Smith is a twenty - four - pound calico rex rabbit.
  • Make you sure you wash up with hot, soapy water, and let crockery air-dry if possible.
  • Wash your hands thoroughly with hot soapy water before handling any food.
  • After cooking, wash in warm, soapy water; soak in suds for longer periods to remove dried food particles.
  • Slowly, Katherine stretched out her arm and reached into the small pail that contained soapy water.
  • Once he was gone I returned to my bath and quickly rinsed out my soapy hair.
  • Her wet-sleeved urchin takes advantage of the soapy water to blow bubbles.
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  • I first wash my lines in hot soapy water then thoroughly rinse them off in clean cold water.
  • A soapy solution was rubbed all over my scabby, bruised and burnt fingers leaving me with a relaxed sensation you wouldn't have believed possible in this part of your body.
  • This bread has a soapy taste.
  • After handling the raw turkey, wash hands and utensils with hot soapy water.
  • I'm not entirely sure why; I thought something was chomping the roots so I took them outside, dug them up and gave them a ‘sheep dip’ in soapy water which should kill off most things.
  • He may know how to pen witty banter and put hip twists on soapy situations, but he'd better give his characters some depth.
  • Use caution in applying it, and wipe up spills with a soapy detergent.
  • To remove heavy tarnish, difficult stains and corrosion: wash in hot, soapy water or a weak ammonia and water solution and rinse.
  • Dermoid cysts of the ovary may consist only of a wall of connective tissue lined with epidermis and containing distinctly epidermic scales which, however, may be rolled up in firm masses of a more or less soapy consistency; this variety is called by Orth epidermoid cyst; or, according to Warren, a form of cyst made up of skin containing small and ill-defined papillæ, but rich in hair follicles and sebaceous glands. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • He passes the time by visiting bathhouses, where he writhes in licentious congress soapy enough to lave his sins and conceal the nether regions forbade by Japanese censorship.
  • Soap can sit on top of the prongs, while soapy water collects in the tray.
  • Run lots of soapy water through the pipe to clean it.
  • To preserve the natural softness of woollen blankets, add one tablespoon of glycerine (for each blanket) to warm soapy water.
  • A cup of white vinegar or one capful of eucalyptus oil may be added to the soapy water as a disinfectant and freshener.
  • Wash plant pots and trays in soapy water and rinse in dilute bleach or disinfectant, then sort into sizes, getting rid of any that are not needed.
  • Modern science has yet to explain how it is that a bathtub, which gets sluiced with soapy water just about every day, gets dirty.
  • Then, with a shove he is off, gliding across 10 metres of slippery plastic, making a messy landing in the soapy water at the end of the run.
  • When she found him a washwoman, who came to the house one day a week and boiled laundry in the cellar, Trudi and Robert watched while the woman built a fire beneath the huge kettle, which was set into bricks, and stirred the soapy liquid with a wooden paddle. Stones from the River
  • Soapy was tossed into prison without trial.
  • It's soapy, slippery, and no good for hair and leaves the bottoms of your feet much too slick to make it advisable for bathtime.
  • Soak the filters in hot soapy water, then scour them with salt or baking soda and rinse thoroughly.
  • Perhaps you will look for and dig up the soaproot, that onion-like bulb of one of the lily family with which the Indians make a soapy lather to wash their clothes. Stories of California
  • Dave charges people tons of money to spray soapy water on bees and claims they are all africanized. Undefined
  • I just use the Carl Franz system: soak the laundry in soapy water in a tightly-covered bucket while you're driving. RV laundry
  • As I pulled to the stop light just before the freeway, a police car came screaming out of the drive through car wash, still soapy, and he headed up the road, too.
  • It is a shallow crescent-shaped vessel of potstone, or what is called soapstone from its soapy feel. Peter the Whaler
  • Let us return to the stratified laminae of soapy water for which the size of the discontinuities is such that we have readily accessible the elementary sheet the periodic repetition of which forms the bands. Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture
  • Wash the blouse in warm soapy water.
  • Two points to note – too much bicarb can give the chickpeas an unpleasant soapy quality, so always err on the side of caution. How to make perfect hummus
  • Warm soapy water was dribbled onto the net to moisten the fibres.
  • All I wanted was to get home and collapse in a tubful of hot, soapy water and enjoy some peace and quiet. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive
  • Yes, it soaked in soapy water for two weeks, every day I chipped away at them a little more. Bright Stuff #543 « Write Anything
  • To prevent the finish from scratching, the tool caddy should be hand-washed in hot, soapy water and abrasive pads and cleansers should be avoided.
  • A cup of white vinegar or one capful of eucalyptus oil may be added to the soapy water as a disinfectant and freshener.
  • Nor would one say saponaceous for soapy, dyslogistic for uncomplimentary, or macrobian (or longevous) for long-lived. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
  • No amount of soapy lather could squeeze those thighs into that molded rubber seat, and my carefree days of certain cleanliness were short-lived. Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
  • Wash the tablecloth in fairly hot soapy water.
  • With a clean bottlebrush and hot soapy water, thoroughly clean the bottles and other items.
  • Some paper towels, a slosh of soapy water and that would do it. CORMORANT
  • Now rinse out your bearings with hot, soapy water to make sure you clear out all the solvent.
  • All thought ashed as she continued to stroke him, her wet, soapy hands sliding back and forth with increasing speed. Etched in Bone
  • All of our drilled rock fountainheads should be able to tolerate scrubbing with hot, soapy water and rinsing with a mild chlorine bleach solution.
  • Liquid crystal researchers did manage to create the biaxial nematic state with complex, soapy mixtures, and with flat molecules tied to a long polymer chain.
  • His hair was chaotically bedraggled, obviously soaked as well as sporadically covered with soapy foam.
  • Wash only full loads in the dishwasher, or handwash dishes with a basin of soapy water and a basin of clear rinse water.
  • A filter may be cleaned by being removed and soaked in a degreasing solution until the grease is dissolved, and then washed with warm, soapy water to remove any traces of the degreaser.
  • The paint may blister in a mild attack or show yellow soapy runs in a severe attack.
  • On the sidewalk Soapy began to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice. He danced, howled, raved , and otherwise disturbed the welkin.
  • With his sleeves rolled up, his apron well splashed, his coppery hair more or less in disarray from the occasional thrustings of a soapy hand, and his face flushed and eager like a healthy boy's, Red Pepper Burns stood grinning down at his patient. Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular
  • Whatever their substance may have been, it is described as gelatinous -- "soapy and jellied. The Book of the Damned
  • And the Skins crew, scrappier and sluttier than their soapy forbears, had a mess of a get-together where sex (pubescent playa Tony plotted to get loser bestie Stanley laid), drugs (Stan's first- time-to-be nearly O.D.'d), and violence (fight! fight! fight!) collided in a way that would have left One Tree Hill under a state-mandated curfew for a month. Watercooler: Only Skins Deep?
  • When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cats paw: the rich dark smell of earth and the stronger, soapy scent of night-blooming flowersmoonflowers, white angels trumpet, four-oclocksand some she didnt recognize, like a plant bearing a star-shaped yellow blossom whose petals were medallioned with golden pollen. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
  • We through everything we had at them … firecrackers, smokebombs aimed down the hole, waterguns filled with soapy water, RAID-filled explosive devices, and of course, the Low Earth-Orbit Refraction Beam (otherwise known as a magnifying glass). EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: Ant Hill Issues
  • It comes with a squeegee handle with two interchangeable rubber blades for steam cleaning soapy residue off glass shower doors;
  • Today Corey had a bright red bottle of soapy water, and was blowing bubbles whenever the teacher turned his back.
  • While she scrubbed the garments in a soapy tub with her washboard, Jack used clothespins to hang them upon long lines of string attached to trees.
  • Before using for the first time, the cooking basket and drip tray should be washed with warm, soapy water.
  • Wash the tablecloth in fairly hot soapy water.
  • Thirsty, he expected to knock the jollop back, but there was a soapy wash against his palate. THE OPEN DOOR
  • He doctored a ball over the course of two weeks by pounding it with a bat, soaking it in soapy water, and finally coating it with white shoe polish to make it look like new.
  • The afternoon was filled with mud, dirt, water, ice, soapy suds and laughter as the students from year 8 to 12 competed with gusto.
  • Wash all pots and tools in hot, soapy water before use.
  • Some paper towels, a slosh of soapy water and that would do it. CORMORANT
  • When I was a child in the Thornbury district, shopkeepers took pride in their own shop frontage and it was a morning ritual for them to take a bucket of hot soapy water and a long brush to scrub down their own pavement.
  • Cholesterol is a white, waxy solid with a soapy feel which is virtually insoluble in water.
  • Non-porous items such as plates may simply need to be washed in soapy water. Mold
  • The unpleasant salty or soapy taste may be masked in flavored or alcoholic beverages.
  • Wash the container in hot soapy water and rinse thoroughly in hot water.
  • Also that if a second crop was taken from the same ground without fertilizing it, the melons would be small and what we called soapy; that is, soft and smooth, utterly uncrisp, and without a trace of the lively freshness and sweetness of those raised on virgin soil. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
  • A filter may be cleaned by being removed and soaked in a degreasing solution until the grease is dissolved, and then washed with warm, soapy water to remove any traces of the degreaser.
  • Relieve discomfort by washing the area gently with warm soapy water, dabbing with soft toilet paper and not scratching.
  • On a recent episode of 'Dirty Sexy Money,' ABC's soapy drama about the filthy rich, heiress Karen Darling gets married for the fourth time, to a golf pro.
  • Soapy wash bags are also great for scrubbing the kids clean, and softening the skin at the same time.
  • With a soapy hand, Inga swiped back the strand of hair straggling across her forehead and put the final pot into the sink.
  • Some of the rackets we have encountered involved concealing stolen goods in vacuum-cleaning bags, buckets of soapy water and even, once, in lumps of unbaked bread dough.
  • The clothes are soaking in soapy water.
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  • Water-based paint washes off rollers with lukewarm soapy water, but it's advisable to buy a few roller sleeves if you are using a number of colours.
  • I did notice a few soapy bubbles in the bath but figured a quick rinse with the shower head would be sufficient.
  • Without indicating here the intermediate stages which I passed through, let us say straightaway that, by observing in the microscope in bright light a small horizontal lamina of a given soapy water (approximately 5 per cent pure alkali oleate), I have seen the discontinuities multiplying of which the black spots were the first example. Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture
  • The rock was mostly poor quality shale and mudstone leaving a smooth soapy floor underfoot and this continued for a few hundred metres without respite.
  • Some paper towels, a slosh of soapy water and that would do it. CORMORANT
  • Two men busily scrubbed dingy, white plastic chairs, while another mopped soapy water off the tiled floor.
  • I snapped, finally losing patience and throwing the brush back into the bucket of hot, soapy water so hard it splashed the front of my uniform.
  • Real diamonds have a quite distinctive, soapy texture to the surface and are immune from water.
  • Some paper towels, a slosh of soapy water and that would do it. CORMORANT
  • More often than not, the soapy agent holds soil in suspension as it becomes loose during the wash cycle, and is subsequently flushed away during the rinse cycle and centrifugal spin.
  • Cutting knives that have been used on raw meat, poultry or fish should always be washed in warm soapy water before being used on other food.
  • The TV show, a soapy black comedy about the inhabitants of a suburban cul-de-sac, features a grabby blend of sex and mystery.
  • Fortunately someone had the presence of mind to snap off a picture, preserving the soapy creature for posterity.
  • My only company today is the only company I had five years ago - an old woman with a mop and a bucket, tutting irritably as she sloshes soapy water over the bits of the floor I've walked on.
  • You can treat them with pyrethrum, white oil, soapy water or just squash them with your fingers.
  • Aphids can be removed by spritzing them with soapy water.
  • Mother doused the clothes in soapy water.
  • Make sure you cook meat well, and wash your hands, cutting boards, countertops, knives, and dishes with warm, soapy water.
  • A bucket of soapy water, 7 bar towels and 2 rolls of paper towels later, the task was done.
  • The unpleasant salty or soapy taste may be masked in flavored or alcoholic beverages.
  • The green soapy substance covered the dishes and David signaled for them to be submerged in the water.
  • Remove applicator tip from the tube and wash with hot , soapy water.
  • Bill's wet body was slippery, and Bill's merry soul was all for frolicsome gamboling, and he slid out of Milt's grasp, he sloshed around in the tub, he sprinkled Milt's sacred good suit with soapy water, and escaped, and in the costume of Adam he danced orientally in Milt's room, till he was seized with sleepiness and cosmic grief, and retired to Free Air
  • The freshness of the clean, scarcely-dried, kalsomine, the faint tinge of smoke from the bit of fire, the delicious soapy cleanliness and a wholesome whiff of barley broth floated out into the dusty hallway to the little person on the stairs. Little Miss By-The-Day
  • More often than not, the soapy agent holds soil in suspension as it becomes loose during the wash cycle, and is subsequently flushed away during the rinse cycle and centrifugal spin.
  • The dirty clothes are soaking in soapy water.
  • Meanwhile, the manicurist dips my fingers into soapy green water. The Memory Palace
  • As a result of the detergent prank, council workers were forced to turn off the water to two of the five statues last week - the hottest spell of the year - so they could unclog pipes jammed up by the soapy water.
  • Like when he'd been in the juniors and a boy at the Big School tried unsuccessfully one Sunday night to replace a light-bulb while standing, starkers, in a bath-full of soapy water.
  • So the cameras would gingerly peer through the steam and mist to reveal eleven fit, young men romping around in the soapy waters of a huge bath.
  • Suds from the soapy sponge he used to clean the floor clung to his sleeves and nestled in his wiry black hair.
  • His hair was chaotically bedraggled, obviously soaked as well as sporadically covered with soapy foam.
  • He trod a pretty thin line, of course, because there's always a danger that such well-meaning words can end up sounding like soapy sentimentality, but he managed to keep himself on the right side.
  • The water was a bit soapy and although she never got pregnant, she had some really bad aches and pains for weeks after that.
  • She immersed her dirty clothes in soapy water.
  • It contains resin and mucilage, in addition to saponin, which is its leading principle, and by virtue of which decoctions of the root produce a soapy froth. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • To remove heavy tarnish, difficult stains and corrosion: wash in hot, soapy water or a weak ammonia and water solution and rinse.
  • Ms. MICKY ALLISON: When the kids finished with them at school, she would bring them home and we would wash them, in soapy water, and we put an orange arm band around it and�then it progressed into the orange boxes. All Treat, No Tricks As UNICEF Fundraiser Turns 60
  • Wash the container in hot soapy water and rinse thoroughly in hot water.
  • He could feel the heat from her body, smell the soapy scent from her skin.
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  • On the sidewalk Soapy began to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice. He danced, howled, raved , and otherwise disturbed the welkin.
  • Run lots of soapy water through the pipe to clean it.
  • However, that became a bit of a schlep, especially so when we emptied the soapy water into the cistern before going away on holiday once and returned home to an awful smell in the bathroom.
  • Roads that have been showered only with a bulldust become soapy quagmires for unwitting drivers, and usually endless landscape is hidden by curtains of mist and rain, reducing visibility to 10 metres.
  • Soap can sit on top of the prongs, while soapy water collects in the tray.
  • On a recent episode of 'Dirty Sexy Money,' ABC's soapy drama about the filthy rich, heiress Karen Darling gets married for the fourth time, to a golf pro.
  • Fans of Douglas Sirk melodramas and other '50s potboilers are the best candidates for this kind of slick, earnestly soapy entertainment.
  • Wash your hands thoroughly with hot soapy water before handling any food.
  • Next, dissolve some pure soap flakes in warm water and rub all over the furniture, paying careful attention to the soiled areas, with a towel wrung out in this soapy water.
  • The man fell against the railing as soapy water splashed everywhere, spattering the deck and running off the ship through the rails.
  • You do this with very hot soapy water and a sponge.
  • The process is simple - all you need is warm soapy water, a washboard, and a willingness to endure prunelike fingers.
  • Woollen garments will retain their natural softness if one tablespoon of borax is added to every five litres of warm soapy water.
  • Scampering up soapy slopes for the It's a Knockout Challenge, bivouacking for the night and abseiling down Ilkley's famous Cow and Calf rocks are some of the tasks.
  • This one is a treat for fans of soapy dramas and students of social attitudes in old American films. Times, Sunday Times
  • She immersed her dirty clothes in soapy water.
  • Do I need to wash my jars in hot soapy water AND sterilize them in boiling water AND dry them in an oven at the appropriate temperature AND add the proper amount of acidifying ingredients AND process them for the recommended length of time in boiling water? Holly Smith: The Next Iron Chef
  • Wash in lukewarm soapy water, rinse until clear of suds in lukewarm water.
  • Wash the blouse in warm soapy water.
  • When washing the child's hair, use earplugs to stop soapy water getting into the child's ears.
  • While she scrubbed the garments in a soapy tub with her washboard, Jack used clothespins to hang them upon long lines of string attached to trees.

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