41. All that a gratin of summer vegetables needed was crusty bread to sop up its savory herb and olive oil pesto. 42. It must get credit for the country's forests and fields, which can sop up the same greenhouse gas. 43. In the days of a planned economy, communist authorities used state-run enterprises to sop up extra urban labor. 44. Many Democrats have said such a cut is too large and would sop up too much of the projected budget surplus. 45. As a native New Englander myself, I love the season and sop up as much of it as I can. 46. The decline in orders won't sop up the excess number of semiconductors on chip makers'shelves, investors said. 47. But for supper that night, we had rice and flour bread that we used to sop up the juice from neckbones. 48. I dunk the artichokes, asparagus, carrots or whatever into the mayonnaise and sop up whatever is left with the bread. 49. Serve the chili with a green salad and some cornbread to sop up every last bit of this soul-warming meal. 50. When downpours came last year, groundskeepers spread thousands of pounds of pine straw in an attempt to sop up the moisture.
