How to Use mope in a Sentence

mope

1 of 2 verb
  • Like a little child, he often moped when he didn't get what he wanted.
  • Rather than moping about, get your shop on with one or all of these many holiday sales.
    — Averi Baudler, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • All Tino can do is just sit there and mope on the couch in full Eeyore mode.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Koko storms off and spends the rest of the evening moping about the interaction.
    — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Reid added Rice that never moped around and stayed positive.
    — Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Tkachuk, his brother, Brady, and Jack Eichel didn’t have time to mope.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Muriel finds Cameron moping and urges him to show Doc a little backbone.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Anyway, Max mopes around all day and takes at least one meditation break.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Since Jimmy Butler moped his way out of town, the talent hasn’t been there.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
  • One week, a colleague noticed Packard moping around the office and asked what was wrong.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Freshly ditched by his friends, Chris mopes, dejected, as his mother drives.
    — Hannah Bae, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2024
  • At the conclusion of the episode, Greg mopes at home, tossing pennies into a jar from afar.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The source explains Christina took no time to mope around and instead was working this past weekend.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Bradbury insisted post-game that none of the Patriots moped or quit.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Spunky Ava, who dreams of becoming a surgeon and traveling the world, is not the kind to sit around and mope.
    — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The moped-like sound of the Shaheds whooshing above the rooftops still unsettles but no longer terrifies.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 May 2025
  • Those with college ambitions either could mope and wallow in sorrow or figure out ways to move forward on their own.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Meanwhile, Paradise's current group of women have been shipped off to a hotel to mope and worry about what their men are doing.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022
  • But the sequence of Deborah moping in bed, at rock bottom, was different.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 June 2025
  • My Mexican hillbilly family never had time to whine and mope.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • Her council is still yapping at her, and her most powerful allies are moping and staring off into the middle distance.
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 14 July 2024
  • After around two years of development, the first electric moped out of the company's stable is making its way to the public.
    — New Atlas, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Orangutans that achieve their goals, enjoy swinging with others, and always look on the bright side of the banana have longer lifespans than those who merely mope around the zoo.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2011
  • But even amidst all the doom and gloom, Pattinson shines, slathering on the black eyeliner and moping around to Nirvana.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Duke, whose time in the pub is spent either moping or getting hyped up by his aunt Kaulo doing her best Lady Macbeth.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • All in all, election night had Republicans cheering and Democrats moping in Ohio.
    — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2024
  • For example, Pooh is shown attempting to get honey while the oft depressed Eeore mopes in his tent.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The Canucks owned all of those top picks that year because their GM, Brian Burke, didn’t sit around and mope about bad luck.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • Last week, he was curled up in a little hairless ball in Sylvi’s lap, moping about the various indignities that have befallen him.
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 30 June 2024
  • However, the poster noted that, during previous visits, her mother-in-law would mope when left alone during the day and only perk up when her son returned home.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025

mope

2 of 2 noun
  • Amid that, though, a guy who had every reason to mope, was instead busy looking for blessings.
    — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Alas, this murder leads to Louis' first vampiric mope session.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But in the capital too he can’t get published, and instead mopes around sulkily at literary soirées.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • That’s how Jerry came to portray Hamlet not so much as a melancholy mope but as someone consumed by anger.
    — Stephen Humphries, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Segel delivers another of his compellingly muted takes on a wary mope, constantly on the lookout for what will go wrong next.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Though many fans have turned their backs on the mope-rocker for his baffling anti-immigrant stance, many more have tucked their heads into the sand to hold onto the moody, disaffected lyrics that so explained our teenaged selves to us.
    — Michelle Tea, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The Boys retreat to a bar to drink away their battle wounds, where Hughie mopes about failing to neutralize the assassin while Annie placates a fan who forces a selfie with her.
    — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 11 July 2024
  • Christopher Walken is in a perpetual mope as the Emperor, and Florence Pugh, as his daughter, gets to do little but stand there and look interesting.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Mostly, though, Ben mopes around watching Cassavetes, Ozu and Rohmer, reprimands his fellow losers and burnouts at the movie theater, and tries to catch the attention of (no points for guessing) white women.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • When devastating hurricanes pummeled Texas, Florida and several Caribbean islands this summer, vacationers didn’t stay home and mope.
    — Hugo Martin, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Rob — the loafer and the mope, the impressively successful Lothario and pretentious little troll — is the protagonist of this book, which could be called autofiction (the author is also named Rob Doyle), anti-woke polemic or obsessive riff.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020

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