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Example sentences for "hopped"

Lexicographically close words:
hopeth; hoping; hoplite; hoplites; hopo; hopper; hoppers; hopping; hoppled; hopples
  1. It was quite amusing to see the way the Notus hopped about after each report, some of them running away, and small blame to them, seeing that it was the first time that they had ever heard the report of a firearm.

  2. He thought that anything would please the demons, so he just hopped about, waving his arms and stamping his feet, imitating as well as he could any dancing he had ever seen.

  3. Then the monkey and the hare both hopped out, quickly and nimbly, to the wrestling platform.

  4. So the hare hopped off the island on to the strange bridge of crocodiles, counting as he jumped from one crocodile's back to the other: "Please keep quite still, or I shall not be able to count.

  5. A demon with one huge eye right in the middle of its forehead came and glared at her, monsters with gaping mouths looked as if they would devour her, a huge snake coiled and hissed about her, and a big frog hopped and croaked towards her.

  6. Then he hopped across the room and banged the door after them, and hopped back.

  7. Daisy had no sooner hopped in and seated herself than the rain came on heavily.

  8. Then, exploding into light quick action, she cast away the encircling arm and hopped to her feet.

  9. Daisy hopped up and carried the shapely silver receptacle to the kitchen, to get some more hot water from Jean's kettle.

  10. Daisy hopped out of the tonneau without aid.

  11. Tom Farrell, having thus freed his hands, hopped ragingly across the room and slapped his wife on the side of the face.

  12. As she looked again at the roped square, she saw that in the interval there had hopped into the enclosure her partner of the dance in the park pavilion, Nick Cluett, a boxer of the kind that is born and not made.

  13. He went at once to look at the grasshopper, and when it hopped he was so startled that he hopped, too.

  14. As soon as it was light, he jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out of the house.

  15. She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and came up close to the table.

  16. The Cap'n hopped into the house and set his foot again on the cricket that his wife brought dutifully.

  17. And Mr. Broadway hopped up and bestirred himself obsequiously.

  18. Cap'n leaped toward her, pulled the mouth of the puckering-bag over her head, and hopped into the house.

  19. He hopped up, gathered a handful of rocks and made at his Xantippe.

  20. The rooster hopped upon the crate, crowed, and stalked out onto the barn floor with a confidence that made Reeves perk up courage a bit.

  21. Men hopped upon the knife-nicked settees of the town house and waved their hats while they hooted.

  22. The chief or "chef," or whatever they called him, fairly hopped up and down.

  23. Somehow or other I hopped down them stairs on my sound foot, draggin' t'other after me.

  24. It was a laugh the old man knew well, for he hopped behind a big pile of bales like a boy playing hide-and-seek, and held his breath in expectation.

  25. The Bush Robin followed them, and when they paused to rest on the soft couch of ferns beneath a rimu tree, the bird alighted on the ground and hopped close to them.

  26. Tiny sparrows twittered and chirped as they hopped about among the dried weeds, searching among the seed vessels for a possible breakfast.

  27. Prue hopped upon that one foot to assure her that it was quite itself again.

  28. But in hoppin' out he hopped into another, an' that just naturally discouraged him an' he come down with me.

  29. He dropped into a pig hole," he explained, "an' hopped out again as neat as could be.

  30. Now some of the rustling came alive, and two or three birds hopped down from somewhere and sat on her foot and sang.

  31. The titmice had apparently not been invited; they sat in the branches and looked on, or hopped and ran about their green leafy city.

  32. The little creatures took their morning feast eagerly, gratefully; they threw back their tiny heads and chirped their thanks; they hopped and ran and fluttered about the sunny green space, till the whole seemed alive with swift, happy motion.

  33. And as he spoke the wicked Queen began to shrivel, and she shrivelled and shrivelled to a horrid wrinkled toad that hopped down the castle steps and disappeared in a crevice.

  34. In his excitement over these matters Zuzu had let go of the Cricket, which, finding itself at liberty, now hopped away and crawled under a log.

  35. He hopped over the form of the Private Secretary after the latter had gone to sleep, and so hid himself behind the royal bedstead, as the King had dimly felt was the case.

  36. Deeply humiliated, Timmins hopped aside, and reluctantly ran for the woods, trusting to elude his pursuer by timely dodging.

  37. Opening his beak angrily, he hopped away to the other end of the terrace.

  38. But he seemed to have forgotten which was his proper pedestal, for he hopped upon the three nearest in turn, only to hop down again with apologetic alacrity at the order of the cracking whip.

  39. Suddenly he hopped away, the full length of his tether; and Horner picked up the mangled victim.

  40. And when I threw him another crumb, he hopped to meet it.

  41. I was coming down the game path to the shore when a bird, a tree sparrow I thought, flew to the ground just ahead of me, and hopped to the water to drink.

  42. Far less prevalent at this time were certain other truly birdlike creatures, of which the earlier sorts also hopped and clambered and the later sorts skimmed and flew.

  43. Then they hopped and danced about, and leapt over chairs and tables and out at the door.

  44. They hopped along to it, and cried: 'We will remember and reward you.

  45. We'll see about it," and then he hopped about on his crutch to help the boys get breakfast.

  46. Curly, the little piggie boy, one morning, as he hopped out of his bed in the clean straw and ran to the head of the stairs to see if breakfast was ready.

  47. Curly Tail heard it first, and, though it was scarcely daylight, he hopped out of bed.

  48. And I seen I wasn't wanted, so I shut the door, and I hopped it.

  49. When the party had paid their bill and give me a tip which made me think I was back at the Guelph again--only there weren't any Dick Turpin of a head waiter standing by for his share--they hopped it.

  50. He up-ended it, and hopped up nimbly, catching at the pony's mane.

  51. Possum hopped out nimbly, in spite of her sore feet, and helped to steady the boat while Aileen followed more carefully with the fish and the empty luncheon baskets.

  52. He took the shortest cut across the paddock, which included a fair-sized log, over which the pony hopped gaily, while both parents gasped.

  53. Garth hopped down eagerly, and peeped through the glass door of the oven.

  54. During our passage we had scrambled up some rather steep and rough slopes, and hopped up some fairly high ledges.

  55. I hopped off my hoss and scrambled down somehow.

  56. And sometimes we crow-hopped solemnly around and around the prostrate Schwartz like a pair of Injins.

  57. They hopped forlornly about the paths as though wondering where they would get their breakfast.

  58. Robin hurried into Piccadilly and hopped on a 'bus which put him down at his club facing the Green Park.

  59. He hopped to her side eagerly, to see her latest extravagance.

  60. Her jenny spun with a subdued buzz; the white lace hopped from between her fingers on to the card.

  61. He had never voted the prohibition ticket and rheumatism was only one of his ailments, but he hopped right on the kid who said he was tired.

  62. And he hopped out of the pond and stood on the bank beside his wife.

  63. Lame men with canes hopped and skipped in order to keep step with their more nimble comrades.

  64. As Master Diek travelled like a raal gentleman, of coorse, he hopped in too.

  65. On the way home, in a corner of brush, I hopped out and bagged twelve quail; and a little farther on, by a lucky sneak, I managed to gather in five ducks from an irrigation pond.

  66. Jackrabbits by the thousand, literally, hopped away in front of us, spreading in all directions as along the sticks of a fan.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hopped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.