1. I noticed drops of water plopping onto the carpet.

2. Mud pools wait until you are looking the other way before plopping discreetly.

3. Although I was evading the wall and finding the goal, the ball was plopping into the net.

4. She refrained from plopping any sort of silk flora or abstract sculpture atop her well-coiffed head.

5. What kind of Anticlimactically meek response to philosophy’s old question — how to live — is plopping down on a cushion and breathing? Just as Albert Camus asked what he called philosophy’s first question — why should I keep living? — we might ask, why keep sitting?