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.
• All Tino can do is just sit there and mope on the couch in full Eeyore mode.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• The source explains Christina took no time to mope around and instead was working this past weekend.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 30 Sep. 2020
• A cat named Memphis can mope like a teenager, while Scarlett is a sneaky and graceful feline.
  — Mary Elizabeth Davis, Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Read full article The dump truck and moped each had two occupants at the time of the crash, Morrissey’s office said.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• Terance Mann couldn't mope over two missed free throws that could have sealed the victory for Florida State.
  — Gary B. Graves, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Take some time to sit with your disappointment, whatever that looks like — seize the chance to mope around in a fluffy bathrobe, mow through an entire sleeve of Thin Mints, or sob in the shower.
  — Anna Goldfarb, The Cut, 12 Mar. 2018
• Anyway, Max mopes around all day and takes at least one meditation break.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
• 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
• One week, a colleague noticed Packard moping around the office and asked what was wrong.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• Rather than moping about, get your shop on with one or all of these many holiday sales.
  — Averi Baudler, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• The moped-like sound of the Shaheds whooshing above the rooftops still unsettles but no longer terrifies.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 May 2025

mope

2 of 2 noun

• Other than that, all you can is stay inside, mope, and wait for summer.
  — Katie Heaney, The Cut, 19 Apr. 2018
• What do the helmets so many of you carp-brained mopes opt to leave at home actually protect against?
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• Amid that, though, a guy who had every reason to mope, was instead busy looking for blessings.
  — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2020
• Edmunds, giving away 6 inches and a good 50 pounds to Gronkowski, didn’t mope or waste a second trying to shake the cobwebs out.
  — Will Graves, The Seattle Times, 26 Dec. 2018
• Alas, this murder leads to Louis' first vampiric mope session.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Rather than mope after the trip's cancellation, the students chose to make a major impact on the lives of others by using the money to help the Navajo Nation, which is struggling amid the pandemic.
  — David Blank, CNN, 3 June 2020
• 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
• Trevor (a purposefully repellent Eric T. Miller) is a mope, an industry term for a journeyman player who’s brought in when extra genitals are needed.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2017
• 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