Crucially, these puzzles are not simply plopped down into the plot.
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He plopped down on the doorstep to relish his hard-won fruit.
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He plopped down sobbing on the plastic chair in the hospital corridor.
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The kids plopped down on a seat and began discussing video games.
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Barrs plopped down at Walker's feet, splaying himself across his friend's legs.
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"The art community didn't get plopped down here by aliens," he said.
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I started ugly-crying the second I plopped down in the front seat.
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It's like being plopped down right in the middle of all the action.
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Mitchell plopped down on the ground, with his legs in a "V" shape.
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And indeed, 400,000 customers plopped down $1,000 deposits each for the Model 3!
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Jerome plopped down in his recliner, and Dom sat on the tartan couch.
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Then I returned home, plopped down at my desk, and started my workday.
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It felt like it had been plopped down the day before we got there.
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And to address Facebook's weakness in consumer devices, he plopped down $2 billion for Oculus.
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The bowl was plopped down in front of me enveloped in a plume of steam.
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He plopped down, content to watch the churn of traffic and flurry of passing humanity.
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For the competition on Friday, Martha slowly climbed onto the stage, plopped down and napped.
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With it, Netflix has plopped down more than $1.75 billion to invest in European content alone.
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" Sombra plopped down next to Jaehee and took the cigarette out of her frozen lips."Shhhhhhhh!
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We headed toward the drum circle and plopped down on the shore to watch the sunset.
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He looked quite the part — that is, until he plopped down to relax during the ceremony.
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After paying our fare, we plopped down in seats four or five rows behind the driver.
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You're plopped down into the middle of this world and you do whatever you want in it.
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Her new glass and steel clinic looks like a plush spaceship, plopped down amid green potato fields.
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But then he plopped down cross-legged on stage at the end and totally killed the vibe.
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Dacus, hankering for a swim, plopped down in the middle and flapped his legs, kiddie-pool style.
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A 450-pound bearded seal was plopped down in the middle of the runway so nobody could leave.
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One particularly terrifying one appears to be plopped down in the middle of some frigid, tundra-like hellscape.
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And the more awful were his travails, the more we voyeurs plopped down our money for a ticket.
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My guests were delighted by the Penelope contraption, and plopped down on the bed to test its mettle.
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A middle-age man in a purple wool sweater plopped down next to me and opened a book.
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They can be taken from wherever they originated, plopped down into the painting's invented circumstances, and live there.
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So he excused himself and plopped down on Ms. Buitrago's faux cow-print sofa to take the calls.
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After the long wait, it will now be placed (read: plopped down) in the gardens near the Champs-Élysée.
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Sixteen minutes later, after he had ascended to an altitude of 157 miles, his pod plopped down in the Atlantic.
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Cops say the 24-year-old plopped down on the couch next to a woman who was holding her baby.
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I didn't have the burning desire to spend seven hours catching up, so I plopped down and watched with them.
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A few minutes later, a platter of Sichuan small plates is plopped down on the table in front of us.
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I tried these on at a Chicago vintage store without socks, figured they felt fine, and plopped down $20 for them.
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Its single sensor, which you just plopped down on your desk was dead simple and took care of tracking the headset.
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This young juvenile had a very successful morning and walked over next to us and plopped down with a full stomach.
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For about 30 minutes, person after person plopped down on benches without paying any mind to the cards pasted on them.
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If you plopped down $350 per season, you got a DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket Max package with live out-of-market games.
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In this case, it is like some aggressive new invasive species has been plopped down in the middle of the political forest.
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But the smart aleck who had a riposte for every comment online plopped down on a sofa and disappeared into her phone.
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The Yankees hurler plopped down on a couch in front of the high-definition televisions and began following his doctor's orders: rest.
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"Sounds creepy," he said, as he plopped down on that bed, not bothered enough to relax instead on our non-internet-connected couch.
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Because I need more than one cocktail to barge uninvited into a conversation, I plopped down next to a young man sitting alone.
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This sense of curious whimsy is often lacking in Venet's public, monumental arcs, that can feel craned in, plopped down, and pointlessly domineering.
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Contributing Opinion Writer I plopped down in the sports bar Thursday to watch World Cup soccer and eat my first fake meat burger.
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As I plopped down on a mostly empty bus at 2000:05 (punctuality is not my strong suit), a chill ran through me.
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TMZ obtained this video of Bam plopped down in the middle of the lobby in a standoff with the fist officer on the scene.
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You just plopped down into a prison where a bunch of Nazis were firing at you, their portraits of Hitler looking behind their backs.
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Kershaw plopped down on the bench, hung his head and stuck out his tongue, tired after a gusty outing, and Honeycutt patted his shoulder.
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During one practice, when Tony Parker plopped down alongside him, Auriemma asked if he had ever contemplated leaving for a bigger market and stage.
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After pleading with my father, he very sweetly drove me back to the place and plopped down for the entire set, bless his heart.
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This edible behemoth is comprised of a hamburger patty plopped down on a bed of sticky rice with a fried egg atop the entire mess.
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One plopped down at Alamo Square Park — the iconic, Victorian-facing public green made iconic in Full House — has reportedly been vandalized at least twice.
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Even the colorful chairs we all plopped down in from time to time turned out to be sculptures by the late Australian provocateur Franz West.
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After the eight-minute ferry ride to their campsite, they simply plopped down their bags, turned off their phones and played a game of Scrabble.
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A startling situation turned in to a surreal hang session, when the animal plopped down next to Hamilton's spot to take in the view as well.
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When my dog plopped down in her dog bed, or even when I cooked bacon with the bedroom door open, the Airmega 200M roared to life.
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We're plopped down in the last row of his home theatre on a couch that feels like a velvet sponge, a blanket covers his outstretched legs.
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I've plopped down in a conference room to moan over the youth with their crying and social media and their refusal to prioritize my exact goals.
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The tricky landing Monday involved slowing the InSight spacecraft to 5 mph before it plopped down on the surface of Mars, assisted by a parachute and rockets.
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"Hundreds left early, while others plopped down on the ground, scrolled through their social media feeds or started up a conversation with their neighbors," the Post says.
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So Mr. Hardwick quickly changed out of his Theory suit, plopped down on the couch with his laptop and opened his iPhone to a Facebook video app.
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I found it incredibly awkward, specifically the verse where he plopped down right next to two teenage girls and sang to a nearby camera instead of them.
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She called her new line Autumn Couleur, trademarked the name and shipped them out in branded cardboard bins ready to be plopped down onto the store floor.
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After a particularly nasty meeting, in which she called one staffer "useless" and instituted a strict lunch schedule, Hagatha plopped down a box of doughnuts by the printer.
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Euclidean Lands stars a tiny, spear-wielding warrior who's plopped down in a colorful world made up of floating 3D levels that you can manipulate with your fingertips.
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To find out, I plopped down onto Vargas' table to experience a new treatment she's been doling out to La La Land's A-listers firsthand: The Supernova Facial.
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From the rough on a par-4, Koepka hit his approach sideways and the ball plopped down about a foot to the right of where he hit it.
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Dressed in a navy blue hoodie and gray khakis, he petted his rescue dog, Brody, and plopped down a heap of unopened mail on the dining room table.
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I have that website to thank for admission into many age-restricted concerts when I was in my first year of college, freshly plopped down in New York City.
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He settled in the chair by the deck, got up, plopped down on the living room couch, put his feet up, laced his fingers and stared down at them.
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President Trump plopped down in what he called a "child's desk" Monday afternoon, a fitting setting considering he was about to repeal two Obama-era education rules affecting schoolchildren.
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The NBA superstar plopped down $4.7 million for the 6 bed, 8 bath Granite Bay joint back in 2013 -- right after inking a $62 million deal with the Kings.
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TMZ Sports has learned a complete set of Pokemon cards just fetched $107,010 at auction ... and it's the most cash someone has EVER plopped down for the famous card game!!!
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I plopped down to sit before the row of tripods, and tried to accept the fact that I was attending a launch solely for the growling roar of the rocket.
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On the outdoor steps, tourists plopped down, worn out, sweating, but still dazzled, their eyes raised to the spirals that have become the stuff of souvenirs, fridge magnets and postcards.
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As Johnson reported for the Washington Post: Hundreds left early, while others plopped down on the ground, scrolled through their social media feeds or started up a conversation with their neighbors.
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Some are being handed over to the same associations that commissioned them over a hundred years ago or plopped down in cemeteries that are the final resting place for Confederate dead.
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Although climbing trees and hunting for nuts have prepared him for this very moment, the little guy soon tired of running and plopped down on the field for a quick rest.
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They plopped down in the front row, only to notice after several minutes that the bus driver refused to start the engine until Wilson and his mother walked to the back.
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The sleek, brightly colored racer was plopped down in New York City's Times Square, attracting the attention of NYC locals and tourists who just didn't know what to make of the thing.
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Near the spot where my husband and I plopped down — in our bathing suits, for now — a married couple (aubergine-haired woman; uncircumcised man) began the afternoon collaborating on a crossword puzzle.
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In the middle of an exhausting hike in the Tatra mountains near the resort town of Zakopane, I plopped down at a picnic table with a coffee outside a charming wilderness chalet.
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Reddit user pfffhuckit uploaded a video of himself racing down a trail on his bike when, suddenly, he sees a bear plopped down in the middle of the road, right in his way.
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Clinton held a rousing rally with 900 people in West Des Moines last night, my friend Pat Rynard, who writes the Iowa Starting Line blog, plopped down in the seat next to me.
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It turns out, Pruitt has plopped down in front of regional conservative-media hosts to defend himself against accusations that he is wasting taxpayer money on first-class travel and high-priced hotels.
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Think of the way Earth stretches before you when you're out somewhere open and wild, how it seems to be a flat plane that buildings and mountains and trees have been plopped down upon.
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"You're not going to like what I'm about to say, but we have to go to Iowa," he said as he walked into my office and plopped down on the only sofa I have.
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Outside, bus stops and a Long Island Rail Road station are plopped down in a depressing terrain of trash-strewn streets, chain-link fences rimmed with barbed wire and panhandlers camped out on sidewalks.
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As a lawyer, she challenged the death penalty, and a few years ago she plopped down topless in a plaza in Times Square to support the painted performers whose bare bodies had stirred controversy.
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Doubters don't believe that these apps will feel "native" to the Mac, but instead seem like iPad apps just plopped down in the middle of your mouse-and-window-central interface like badly transplanted organs.
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Sager + Wilde's namesake on Hackney Road is perhaps London's most venerated wine bar, and that lineage was evident the moment my server plopped down the voluminous list of adult beverages alongside a comparatively stubby menu.
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Let's say you're at Levi's Stadium for Super Bowl 50 — having already plopped down hundreds if not thousands of dollars for a ticket and an additional $123 for a hot dog topped with real gold flakes.
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In reality, the settlement was plopped down in the arid Big Horn Basin where the wind rarely stops blowing and there was once so much sulfur in the river that it was known as Stinking Water.
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Kos-Read lumbered through the center aisle until he reached the last row, where he heaved his backpack onto a seat and plopped down into another as if he were claiming a spot on a long-distance bus.
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When they finally arrived at a restaurant in Notting Hill, Mr. Bardaouil, a former actor and performance artist, and Mr. Fellrath, who once taught at the London School of Economics, plopped down at the table and apologized profusely.
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Because this is Thrones — where there's a fan theory for nearly every plot line — there were those who believed that the decapitated dog head Smalljon Umber plopped down in front of Ramsay Bolton belonged to a different beast.
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As it hit, I excused myself from a conversation with a DJ, plopped down on the grass, took out my phone's Notes app, wrote and wrote and wrote, then went back to the main stage and danced to Alesso.
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Najera, who was the second Mexican-born player in the N.B.A., had just plopped down into a baseline seat at the Mexico City Arena alongside Horacio Llamas, who was the first from the country to play in the league.
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Dude figured out the title of the final Avengers movie seven months before it was officially revealed, and he was so sure of his guess that he plopped down money on the URLs the same day Infinity War hit theaters.
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So when Emmanuel Oquendo and Israel Figueroa Fontánez found connectivity along a central strip in San Juan known as the Milla de Oro (the Golden Mile), they plopped down on the sidewalk, opened their laptops, and worked from the street.
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Trailing, 3-0, in the match with 15 minutes left to play, the players here on Wednesday night might as well have plopped down onto the grass, gathered around someone's cellular phone and started following the Germany-South Korea game.
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After rehearsal, they plopped down on a two-seater in Mr. Martin's dressing room and discussed their friendship and their show, a combination of clips, musical numbers and scripted bits that have been filmed for a Netflix special due May 25.
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The sculptor and glassblower Josiah McElheny has plopped down three pavilions in Madison Square Park's fenced-off central lawn; a green disc, a red arch and a blue baffle with circular cutouts that look like a giant Connect Four game board.
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Most of the 10 who came had no formal drawing training, but they all plopped down on cushions to silently draw portraits of the "plant spirit": the classically trained ballet dancer Leah Mulartrick, who expressed the plant's life cycle with sprightly dance moves.
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Yankees 23, Mariners 43 SEATTLE — When C. C. Sabathia plopped down on a sofa next to several of his teammates in the visitors' clubhouse, they were soon paying rapt attention to a biography of Nolan Ryan on the television in front of them.
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It was as if I were sitting on a commercial flight, at cruising altitude, when the pilot suddenly plopped down in the next seat, commiserated about the tarmac delays and poor in-flight service, then popped an Ambien and went to sleep.
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The new SupaBRCK — with its dual core processor and a 5 terabyte hard drive — can be plopped down in just about any environment to provide up to 100 internet connections, streaming video for 50 devices and enough server capacity to run a Linux stack.
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The new SupaBRCK — with its dual core processor and a 5 terabyte hard drive — can be plopped down in just about any environment to provide up to 100 internet connections, streaming video for 33 devices and enough server capacity to run a Linux stack.
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And a bevy of secondary characters (none of whom are particularly distinguishable from one another) seem like a gang of guys with Cockney accents lifted right out of one of Ritchie's old crime films, dressed in vaguely medieval garb, and plopped down into this one.
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One 4-year-old kid who saw Star Wars on opening weekend that year was so eager to manifest what he'd just seen that the minute he got home, he plopped down at his desk to storyboard everything he could while his mom started making dinner.
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Columbus, with an economy anchored by banking, insurance and higher education, fits the profile of a Sun Belt city plopped down in the Midwest: It is one of the 15 fastest growing metropolises in the country, and the only one on the list in the Midwest.
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She unceremoniously plopped down slices of portokalopita arranged in its own baking tin with some parchment paper along with a platter of sliced Fuji apples drizzled with mint and Greek honey (the bees feast on thyme nectar, resulting in a surprising kick) and let guests serve themselves.
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China News reports that a group of bank employees at the Xin Cheng branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Nanning were in the midst of a morning meeting on Friday when a python fell from the ceiling and plopped down between two of the staffers.
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Guests posed in a photo booth stocked with cardboard props of grimacing emoji and meat-on-a-stick emoji, plopped down on devil and poop emoji beanbags and snacked exclusively on foods sourced from the emoji keyboard — sushi, flan, beer, pears and skewers of dango, a sweet Japanese dumpling.
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Her reaction to being plopped down in the driver's seat of a Tesla Model S that's equipped with the company's Autopilot software is, at the very least, the same sort of inner monologue that will run through each of our heads the first time we get to experience a car with autonomous capabilities.
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In fact, we were surrounded by kids, among them a kindergartener who clung to her incarcerated mother at the table beside us, a newborn asleep in the arms of the visitor just behind her seat, and a preschooler in braids like the ones Rodriguez used to weave for her son plopped down in the seat behind mine.
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The ball, once black but now the color of ash, has been there for 235 years, and though it might have looked odd among the flowers and candles and picture frames nearby, a stroll through any of the cemeteries of this rural village would eventually reveal several dozen more just like it, plopped down like pumpkins in a field.
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