How to Use lope in a Sentence

lope

verb
Definition of lopenext
Synonyms for lopenext
  • He went loping up the hill.
  • The outfielder loped after the ball.
  • The horses loped easily across the fields.
  • A handler of big cats weeps as the beasts lope out of the ring for the last time.
    — Glen Barber, The Denver Post, 21 May 2017
  • The bear sprung to its feet and loped about 15 yards, then fell over dead.
    — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 25 May 2023
  • Ahead of her a coyote loped across the street with something in its mouth.
    — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In the distance, the Mustang Mountains loped across the horizon.
    — Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Hurtig, a lanky forward with a prow of bright-blond hair, loped toward the ball and sent a low, hard shot.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The car is comfy when loping along and predictable when wrung out.
    — Sam Smith, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Grooves swing, lope and gallop, while Chris Desiderio’s distorted, spacey guitar leads stab in and out.
    — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Alek Shrader maintains his tenoral cool while having to lope around the stage as half-man, half-gorilla.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Obiri is a ferocious runner, with long, loping strides.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • These days, Dublin City seems to be flexing another muscle: Cyclists flood the streets, runners lope along park trails and, on the edges of this coastal metropolis, kite surfers dot the sky.
    — Brigid Mander, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
  • The engine is original but for a century of maintenance and use, and a tall overdrive gear has been added to let the car lope easily on open highway.
    — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 3 July 2022
  • Soon Flora Bundy will return for her second witness interview and a lion or two may lope through the den, checking on how the inquiry is going.
    — Anne Carson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The gray wolf that made headlines in 2011 for becoming the first lobo in nearly a century to lope in California’s wilderness is presumed dead.
    — Suzanne Espinosa Solis, SFChronicle.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Matheny will play an opening set, then strap on a bass and contribute to Miller’s relaxed, loping country-rock sound.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
  • Each winter, camels lope around the moon-like desert landscape of the lowest place on Earth under the watchful eyes of their Bedouin Arab herders, in an ancient tradition passed from father to son over the generations.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Just east of the Santa Monica boardwalk, a dozen or so longboarders cruise in loping patterns along the empty stretch of South Lot 4, a mostly empty parking area.
    — Kristina Linnea Garcia, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In a lean-to-the-bone melody filled with squirrelly synths and loping pedal steels, Lightfoot tells a literary tale of the final voyage of a ship in almost sequential detail while rhyming Gitche Gumee more than a few times.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 2 May 2023
  • Bassist Benny Trokan underlines the tunefulness with nimble lines that lope and chug, girding every song with a snappy precision and providing ballast for the strings that gild some of the tracks.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 29 June 2018
  • And the effort required to lope stiff-legged across the powdery surface guzzled the air and cooling water in his backpack, limiting his time outside the relative safety of the lunar module.
    — Outside Online, 23 June 2021
  • Berry’s songs echo black postwar struggle for freedom of movement, with all the struggle taken out: sunny, upbeat, their rhythms loping, casual, top-down.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • Harper’s return will curtail much of that, with Schwarber and Castellanos vacating occasional DH duty to lope back to the outfield.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • The dancers, like multicolored gazelles, flit and lope and skitter and spin, each following a distinct and singular trajectory.
    — Marina Harss, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • But to orient the big, loping V-Twin usually found in their heavyweight cruisers towards a sport riding experience is taking things to another level - or at least another dimension of sorts.
    — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Stubby hind legs increase energy efficiency, allowing the animals to lope easily across the ground.
    — Christine Dell'amore, National Geographic, 14 June 2019
  • The prose is often breathtaking, especially the long, loping passages describing everyday Comanche life.
    — Chris Vognar, Chron, 28 May 2023
  • He went loping up the hill.
  • The outfielder loped after the ball.

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