Pronunciation of the English word soap.
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1. | Daytime serials were "soap operas," because manufacturers of laundry soap advertised there. Cowboy movies were "horse operas" by extension. Soap operas came to be called "soaps"; and horse operas, "oaters." | |
2. | Tom put the soap in the soap dish. | |
3. | Two bears are sitting in a bathtub. One of them asks, "Can you please pass the soap?" The other replies, "No soap, radio!" | |
4. | Tom is filling the soap dispenser with liquid soap. | |
5. | This soap will improve her complexion. | |
6. | This soap lathers up with water. | |
7. | They make used cooking oil into soap at that factory. | |
8. | Right, I said, shivering at this recital as a man would who gets hysterical while taking a shower if a bit of soap stings his eye. | |
9. | Our love affair was as short-lived as a soap-bubble. | |
10. | The government ordered that the price of soap be reduced by two pence. |