How to Use cope in a Sentence

cope

1 of 2 verb
  • Please tell me how to cope with this.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026
  • To cope, nearly two-thirds have raised prices.
    — Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
  • My mother couldn’t cope with it and wasn’t at home.
    — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • This, in turn, was linked to feeling more able to cope.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Each of the Silvers cope in their own way.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Dec. 2025
  • How did the bands cope with all that happening at once?
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • People had a hard time coping with that.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Sarah says the other kids are doing their best to cope.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Lennie asked about how the audience coped with that.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • With this trip, solo travel was my way to cope with grief.
    — Robin Allison Davis, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Harmful habits then become a way to cope with this stress.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 8 June 2026
  • While some jump for fun, many are looking to cope with trauma.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The book was meant to help her three sons cope with grief, Kouri said at the time.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
  • Others spoke of drinking to cope.
    — Leah Willingham, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Kouri wrote a children’s book to help her boys cope with the loss of their father.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That freed up the full-backs to stay wide and cope with Japan’s switches.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • One in three, amit to bed rotting—staying in bed for hours on end—to cope.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • If that is what fans need to cope with all the garbage going on in the world around us, have at it.
    — Robert Niles, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • There are as many answers as there are people trying to cope.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • News on the red carpet when asked how the couple is coping.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Here's a look at how the South coped with winter weather.
    — James Powel, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
  • But coping with the immense loss has not been easy for the young children.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But coping with the immense loss has not been easy for the young children.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
  • Trad wives cope with this by seeking to marry men who will provide for them.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Chelsea coped better than many fans had feared in Palmer’s absence.
    — Cerys Jones, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Bo was thrust into helping a large group of children cope with the tragedy.
    — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Quit being such snowflake whiners and cope with your feelings.
    — Randy Dotinga, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • Ukrainians, ever resilient, have found some ways to cope with the cold.
    — Sophia Panych, Allure, 24 Feb. 2026
  • What can consumers do to cope with high inflation?
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • How is your mom coping with everything these days?
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025

cope

2 of 2 noun
  • The short view is another cope.
    — Sam Lipsyte, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
  • There’s a generous serving of cope in that statement.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The most marvelous of all the vestments is a cope embroidered in a workshop in Genoa in the late 17th century.
    — Sarah Kozlowski, Dallas Morning News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • You can’t even get properly offended by Jordan because the cope is so transparent.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
  • All of the substances are just a cope trying to feel neurotypical while being in public, but obviously that isn’t a real solution.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
  • All of the substances are just a cope trying to feel neurotypical while being in public, but obviously that isn’t a real solution.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026
  • What feels like cannabis helping a garden mom cope may actually be the drug treating the withdrawal symptoms it’s created, Haney said.
    — Sarah Levy, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026

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