How to Use dope in a Sentence

dope

1 of 3 noun

• What a dope he is.
• They were caught smoking dope.
• That’s the big fat dope’s line.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
• Our dope seemed to have no effect on them.
  — Doris Decleene, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2026
• The records came out dope — no denying that.
  — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026
• That’s a dope spot to just hang out with your friends and have a drink.
  — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
• Plus, my band got to be a part of it with me, which was so dope.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• The music was fresh, the movies were dope and the hair was big.
  — New York Times, 29 Nov. 2021
• Now, as far as the females that’s on the song, that was dope as hell.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Oct. 2025
• So to bring that energy would be dope.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2025
• Freddie Gibbs is no stranger to putting out dope work for the clique.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 19 Feb. 2021
• His brush with death had fazed him less than his roiling dope sickness.
  — Wired, 15 Sep. 2019
• The love online has been very kind, very dope, and very genuine.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• There’s still a lot of dope drill, and a lot of people doing it.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 3 Feb. 2023
• Not only is his name short and cool, but his music is just as dope.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2022
• And now a lot of people stop me on the street and that’s pretty dope too.
  — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
• Hitting any shot to win any game in the final seconds is dope.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
• The dopest s—t was never on the charts, so that means that there’s a lot of dope s—t around.
  — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
• There are so many people who are dope musicians.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
• Gene had a pretty dope, flashy, silvery jacket, maybe gold.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2026
• A little bit, which is why Bud has dope action scenes and does some gnarly things.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
• Got no time for the rope-a-dope, Wallace is gonna ride like the Pope.
  — Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
• In the age of branding, not being afraid to be known for trying things out is so dope to me.
  — Candace McDuffie, Glamour, 22 Feb. 2022
• In the fray, Robbie throws the bag of dope into the river.
  — Grace Byron, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2025
• To finally have it in hand and to see your vision come to light was a dope moment.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2021
• It’s been dope to see a lot of female rappers dominate the charts.
  — D'shonda Brown, Essence, 1 Apr. 2021
• Dope doesn’t chase money, money chases dope.
  — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
• Travis had a camp with a bunch of dope artists, and writers, producers just vibing.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• But hey, at least these dopes get a periodic recess, right?
  — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2026
• So Cody grabbed his super dope palm fronds hat and asked for beads to help bedazzle it.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2022

dope

2 of 3 verb

• They tried to dope him.
• The channel region has the opposite doping to the source and drain.
  — Marko Radosavljevic, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2022
• Is there too much focus on the athletes who dope, rather than on the people or systems that guide the athletes?
  — Dan Weil, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• Sun was banned by the sport in 2014 for testing positive for doping.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 24 July 2019
• Sailors and families affected by doping said the move to begin testing was long past due.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• One rationale is an athlete who is doping could simply refuse a test and seek a lighter punishment.
  — ABC News, 30 June 2026
• The race has had other blemishes this year, all related to a dog doping scandal.
  — Mark Thiessen, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
• The Chinese star with a history of doping failed to medal in the 800 free.
  — Beth Harris, baltimoresun.com, 24 July 2019
• Four of those medals were stripped for doping at those Sochi Games, bringing the final count to 29.
  — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 20 Feb. 2026
• The researchers solved this by doping lithium-indium chloride with iron.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
• To solve this problem, a group of researchers used a nanoparticle that was doped with ytterbium (a rare-earth metal).
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
• The deaths dealt further blows to a sport already reeling from a series of doping suspensions and breakdowns.
  — Mark Graves | , oregonlive, 7 May 2023
• But in hindsight, all my friends that grew up with successful parents are all the ones that are addicted to dope and can’t get it together.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2026
• In his early tenure, that tended to be doping positives, leading to ejecting some riders or teams.
  — Andy McGrath, New York Times, 11 July 2026
• But he was stripped of his titles and banned for life from the sport in 2012, as doping allegations mounted.
  — Dale Robertson, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2018
• The resonator is so stable because the silicon from which it’s crafted has been doped with phosphorus, Tabrizian says.
  — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025
• Those, apparently, were from doping control officers trying to track him down.
  — ABC News, 23 May 2026
• Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven of his Tour de France victories.
  — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
• Among the hurdles the sport faces is a reputation for danger in the wake of various high-profile deaths and a recent doping scandal.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
• Women have been caught doping, too, but in much smaller numbers, and none of the Rabobank women had ever produced a positive test.
  — Outside Online, 15 May 2018
• The general practice is to reallocate the purse to other owners if a winning horse is later proven to have been doped, but not to pay back bettors.
  — Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
• The general practice is to reallocate the purse to other owners in the event a winning horse is later proven to have been doped, but not to pay back bettors.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• CLaWS is a fiber laser, lasers that use optical fibers doped in rare elements as a transmission medium.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2019
• Tough to dope out a week when the possibilities include four games in five days, or maybe a two-day break before a wild-card game, or the saddest scenario of all - see you next spring.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
• Mr Mutko himself landed at the centre of the Sochi Winter Olympics doping scandal.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2018
• Armstrong, 46, won the Tour de France seven times, but was later stripped of his titles for doping offenses.
  — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• During the 1994 World Cup, Maradona played in just two games before doping tests found ephedrine in his urine sample.
  — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• For three-quarters of its pages, the book reads like a paean to dope, a lyrical testament to the transcendent bliss of the first time using, and to the futile effort to recapture it.
  — Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
• However, most nitrogen-doping techniques are far from practical.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2025
• What happens to the Olympic medals now that Russian skater Kamila Valieva has been sanctioned for doping?
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024

dope

3 of 3 adjective

• That movie was so dope.
• Check out this dope new song.
• Those writers are dope, and that was not my intention at all.
  — EW.com, 14 Jan. 2024
• What was so dope about diving into the blues was hearing their stories.
  — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2026
• In retrospect, their wardrobe choices were also quite dope, too.
  — Eliot Glazer, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024
• The bride tries to find the most dramatic place to put that sucker so the wedding pics look dope-as-hell.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 11 Sep. 2017
• All my friends are pretty dope musicians and always willing to add an idea.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 6 Nov. 2024
• Because some tracks have a dope verse and a really good beat and a great hook, and the song is really dope and that’s cool.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 29 Aug. 2023
• Not too many Black people have even been nominated — let alone won — so being considered is already dope.
  — Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• Carl Dixon, and Steve Terrell put a beat underneath my freestyle and composed something really dope.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2023
• Being able to foster collective reading with people who are incarcerated, as well as people on the outside, has been really dope.
  — Christopher Soto, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024