How to Use cop to in a Sentence

cop to

phrasal verb
Definition of cop tonext
  • Bernstein cops to whatever behavior inspired the moniker but was more focused on its creative potential.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The women closed the door and told the cop to stay outside, according to Platkin’s office.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 29 July 2024
  • Juice cops to the Ghost being a myth but argues that all who fly to protect Ukraine are their own ghosts of Kyiv.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
  • When pressed for the source of an assertion, AI sometimes cops to making things up.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Would Barber be arguing for that cop to do prison time?
    — Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 14 May 2024
  • Even those who don’t cop to this behavior still sometimes do it.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Baron tells Asaf), and the community is rallying to try to bring the cops to justice.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Yes, John Harbaugh will cop to having some Taylor Swift songs on his phone.
    — Noah Trister, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
  • This led the cops to obtain a warrant for the surveillance footage and other evidence.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
  • The proposal still would have allowed cops to use the dogs for search and rescue and to detect narcotics and explosives.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • Jokić copped to a fondness for Coke by the litre and for burek, a Serbian pastry usually filled with meat or cheese.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • On his last mission, Hole has to partner with a corrupt cop to investigate the murder of a woman.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Cahill, who presided over Chauvin's trial, sentenced the veteran cop to 22 1/2 years in prison.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 May 2023
  • The Grammy winner copped to the mistake on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after the episode aired.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The Grammy winner copped to the mistake on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after the episode aired.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
  • If your birthday is today – Aug. 12 – your Florida Man is a drunk riding a lawn mower on the highway, begging cops to take him to jail.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Alec Baldwin copped to an Instagram gaffe after sharing a tribute to his children, only to leave one of them out.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 May 2023
  • The state quickly turned the tables, claiming to the court that Fernandez purposely tried to portray himself as a cop to Lampley.
    — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 22 July 2024
  • After Spears deleted her Instagram page, concerned fans called cops to her house, who then deduced that nothing was wrong.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2023
  • To this day Kim Kardashian has only ever copped to getting Botox injections in her neck, per People.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 27 July 2023
  • Reynolds has finally copped to being part of leaking Deadpool test footage way back in 2014, when the film was in the production bardo between editing and theaters.
    — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 26 July 2024
  • Some parents called for more cops to patrol the neighborhood, noting that their nannies would no longer walk by certain subway stations.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Sandoval recalls overhearing Scheana copping to punching Raquel in the face, though everything Sandoval says at this point must be taken with a mine of salt.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
  • The film tells the story of an Irish mob boss who plants a spy within the Massachusetts State Police just as the police assign an undercover cop to infiltrate the gang.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • But the whole sequence is impressively ugly, and Danvers’ response — putting Leah in a jail cell and refusing entreaties by the other cops to stop being so tough on the kid — is even uglier.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • James Weeks, 55, of Sodus, just east of Rochester, copped to charges of assault and resisting police officers in federal court in Washington.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
  • Critics say a vague definition of civil disturbances will allow cops to squash protests.
    — USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
  • Balla cops to recently wrestling back control over the band’s merch from the company that usually handles it, leaving his house full of cardboard boxes.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
  • This is what Barack Obama, who copped to wearing only gray or dark blue suits as president, aside from that one unfortunate tan suit moment, said, as did Mr. Zuckerberg.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Biden seems eager to goad Trump to either defend his longstanding position or cop to a monumental flip-flop.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024

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