How to Use lope in a Sentence

lope

verb

• 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.

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024