How to Use soap opera in a Sentence

soap opera

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  • She loves to watch daytime soap operas.
  • Dallas is a soap opera from the 1970s that aired on CBS.
    — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The Crown is now more of a soap opera than ever before.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The renewal takes the soap opera through to its 55th season.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In the wake of his death, Miller’s former soap opera co-stars paid tribute to the actor.
    — Ariana Brockington, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Zucker has starred as Nicole Walker on the soap opera since 1998.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • That was when baseball was king and the Sox were an irresistible 12-month soap opera.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Well, in the SEC there is always a soap opera playing out inside the drama.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The pair met in 1985 working on the soap opera Loving and married just six months later.
    — Kara Nesvig, Peoplemag, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Musk will now own the Twitter platform as an end to this saga and soap opera that began in April.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • To be a soap opera heroine is to be a virgin, especially in the Nineties.
    — Maitland Ward, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
  • For the first time in 35 years, a soap opera will have a predominantly Black cast.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This world—a soap opera of excess and corruption playing non-stop through the New York of the nineties—was Trump’s, too.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Upon news of his death, stars of the soap opera also paid tribute to their long-term colleague.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • His four years in Brooklyn have been disastrous at best, with this latest episode of the soap opera making the rest of the league laugh.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Dorothy Shay had a friend that was associated with the soap opera ...
    — Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2022
  • This episode of Car and Driver’s ongoing soap opera, Window Shop, goes in search of the worst car names ever.
    — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 7 July 2023
  • Apart from the long-running soap opera, Eddy starred in dozens of sitcoms and TV series, such as Married...
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2022
  • In 2006, McCartney returned to the soap opera to appear as himself for two episodes!
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The soap opera will pay tribute to John Aniston, who starred on the series for more than 30 years, during his final episode next month.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Outside of Yours, Mine and Ours, Leak's most prominent projects were soap operas.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • De los Reyes appeared in nearly 300 episodes of the soap opera during his tenure, some alongside his wife, Saum.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The long-running soap opera is moving to the Peacock streaming service after 57 years on NBC.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022
  • But viewers aren't seeing the effects yet beyond late-night TV, talk shows and soap operas.
    — USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • The Burtons were the first celebrity couple to be commandeered by the soap opera of their own lives, using their films as a rolling background.
    — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The drama in his courtroom proved as riveting as any daytime soap opera.
    — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Without meaning to do so, Musk has made Twitter into a soap opera, casting himself in the lead role.
    — Roger McNamee, Time, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The covered projects include soap operas, variety shows, talk shows and game shows.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
  • The imaginary places Jackson most loved to visit were soap operas.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But 2022 was already an awful year for crypto before the FTX-Binance soap opera.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 10 Nov. 2022

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