How to Use trope in a Sentence

trope

noun

• Even the text of the libretto seems weary of the trope.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The trope has reared its head again online ahead of the midterms.
  — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• And that’s been the trope all along—if them, why not us?
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• These are easy tropes to fall back on this time of year.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Nov. 2017
• In truth, the mixing of the mournful and the clownish is a stale trope.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021
• One of the worst horror movie tropes is the death of the family dog.
  — Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 25 June 2018
• Of course, this has been a standard trope in games for years.
  — Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• The enemies-to-lovers trope is one of the best in romance.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 10 Apr. 2022
• The anti-Semitic tropes have no place in the discourse.
  — Eli Rosenberg, The Seattle Times, 6 Nov. 2018
• The old trope was a hippie freaked out on too much acid who jumped off a roof.
  — Alex Kuczynski, Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2022
• For once, the old trope may not be ill advised: buy gold.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• So there’s all these racist tropes about black folks, which are that ...
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 8 Oct. 2018
• The sound of a crying baby on a flight is among the most overused tropes in flying.
  — Ryan Craggs, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2017
• That's such a fun play on the fairytale trope that made for a cute moment.
  — refinery29.com, 1 May 2022
• These days, the trope feels more than a little bit dated.
  — Becca Endicott, ELLE Decor, 13 Nov. 2017
• So that’s a more modern rendition of the same kind of trope.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2019
• The name Becky is a pop trope, and it’s been used in music for decades.
  — Cat Cardenas, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022
• Roseanna is more wrapped up in Dead Girl genre tropes than the rest of the books.
  — Alice Bolin, Longreads, 26 June 2018
• The Comeback is among the most reliable tropes in all of sports.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• In tales of princes and princesses, the trope of the wicked stepmother is timeless.
  — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• Evert refused to play into any of the tropes that day - or any other day.
  — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
• The old gumshoe trope is one Knopfler works every so often.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2019
• The old trope of the casting couch has never really died.
  — Ann Fromholz, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
• Today, the trope is still trotted out in cartoons, books and movies.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020
• But Thede assures that Black’s role in the show will be far from that of a trope.
  — Clarkisha Kent, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• Josie and the Pussycats subverted those tropes off and on-screen.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 4 Feb. 2020
• The fossilized tropes aren’t the only thing that color our vision.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• Each ends as a trope: one a man who triumphs against all odds, the other a martyr.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
• What a trope: Actress falls in love with her leading man.
  — Angela Haupt, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
• The rash mistake that proves fatal is a constant trope in these novels.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 10 July 2020

Last Updated: 2 May 2024