How do you use the word "soup" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "soup": I want to eat warm soup. First beat the eggs and add them to the soup.

Soup Meaning

/suːp/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAny of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.

nounAny of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture., A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.

Sentence Examples

I want to eat warm soup.

First beat the eggs and add them to the soup.

CEFR Practice Quiz

For lunch, she ate a warm bowl of tomato ____ with crackers.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

A hot bowl of creamy tomato ____ is perfect for a cold and rainy afternoon during the winter.

Word Origin & History

The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper. The verb is from the noun.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment." — 2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 6:21 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:

"[…]who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup[…]" — 1956, Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 11:

"B. Wickham had also the disposition and general outlook on life of a ticking bomb. In her society you always had the uneasy feeling that something was likely to go off at any moment with a pop. You never knew what she was going to do next or into what murky depths of soup she would carelessly plunge you. [...] “It may be fun for her,” I said with one of my bitter laughs, “but it isn't so diverting for the unfortunate toads beneath the harrow whom she plunges so ruthlessly in the soup.”" — 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I and X:

"I'm blessed if I've heard about any thing but kangaroo-tail soup all the while I was at Launceston. They souped me there night and day." — 1845, Charles Rowcroft, Tales of the Colonies: Or, The Adventures of an Emigrant, page 432:

"Now laughing together thaws our human ice; long before Swindon it was a talking match, —at Swindon who so devoted as Captain Dolignan,—he handed them out—he souped them,—he tough-chickened them,—he brandied and cochinealed one, and he brandied and burnt-sugared the other;" — 1896, Charles Reade, Readiana; Comments on Current Events, page 2:

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