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Example sentences for "mope"

Lexicographically close words:
mooues; moouing; moove; mooved; mopani; moped; mopes; mophilia; moping; mopped
  1. All her light-heartedness is gone; she never goes out; receives no friends; and does nothing but mope inside the house.

  2. You have done nothing but mope about, and look as miserable as a boiled owl.

  3. Through the curling twigs of boughs just green, its wings fly towards the stars; but the next moment they have drooped to mope beneath the damp bushes.

  4. How could women mope and moan because they were cast out, and try to scratch their way back where they were not welcome?

  5. The next day he began to mope and refused to come out of the cage; whether because of illness, or disappointed affections, who shall say?

  6. In vain was his door set open with the others, in vain did the birds splash and splatter the water, he would not come out, though he did not mope or lose his appetite.

  7. I won't let you go upstairs and mope like a bird with the pip.

  8. She says it would drive her mad if it did; and if I make her leave off she does nothing but mope and cry, so I let her keep on.

  9. There now, you're beginning to mope again, and I mean to stop it.

  10. It's enough to make anyone's head ache the way you mope around reading all the time.

  11. She never does anything but mope around the house and read or play the organ, but I thought it was 'cause she didn't want to.

  12. Stella seemed not to care to play and would mope with round eyes saddened by this eternal gloom.

  13. Now you hang about the house on these lovely fine days and mope and grumble.

  14. It will be expected of us, and be setting a good example, and all that sort of thing, and it is positively wicked to mope indoors when we ought to be seen in the streets and the forum.

  15. He seemed relieved, but went on: "I don't half like leaving you here to mope alone.

  16. A man might just as well get into the train and be landed at Milan or Verona as mope in one place and be worried to death by stupid fools dogging your footsteps.

  17. Being a lover I sleep little and pine much, and this is a fair good place and solitary, so will I pine awhile and likewise mope and languish, alack!

  18. And yet, Giles, methinks he doth mope and grieve these days.

  19. But there being a Prince of Asturias, the old Duke Rinaldo broke off the match, and said his daughter's children should not be younger brothers: and so they mope old virgins.

  20. Must he mope because the Florentines are like the rest of the world?

  21. Then he would mope about the place, moping even worse than he did before, and would spend the evening all alone in the housekeeper's room, with a pipe in his mouth, which he seemed hardly able to take the trouble to keep alight.

  22. As she saw the poor girl mope and weary through one day after another, she could not but have misgivings.

  23. Their movements depend largely upon the weather, and even if they have come back earlier they are likely to mope indoors when the weather is cold and disagreeable.

  24. Much help is in mine, as I mope and pine, And skulk through day, and scowl in my dreams At my swan's obtaining the crow's rebuff.

  25. I go to the sandshore with Aunt Martha and Mrs. Saxby in the morning, read to Aunt in the afternoons, and mope around by my disconsolate self in the evenings.

  26. She could mope in her room all she liked.

  27. Mr. Arnold acts as if I were dead: and practically I am to him, although he may sigh and mope a little, perhaps.

  28. I won't mope and be lackadaisical, I promise," and smilingly he kissed her good-by.

  29. Moreover, she was a good-hearted, Christian girl, and perceived clearly that it was no time for her to mope of droop.

  30. So don't let us be downhearted, papa, and mope while we are waiting for better days.

  31. You surely do not intend to mope in that dismal house in Russell Square?

  32. You did not expect me to sit and mope all day, did you, Jack?

  33. Jack, she reflected, was too much a man of the world to expect her to sit and mope alone.

  34. Heaven save the mark, Far better be a soldier than a clerk, Far rather had I be a fighter Than learned reader or a writer, Since they who'd read must mope in schools, And they that write be mostly fools.

  35. I am sure the boys will get on best together; Roy will have a better chance of growing strong if he is with Dudley than if he is to mope by himself here.

  36. I think he would mope and mope all by himself.

  37. I don't care to mope here when you are out enjoying yourself.

  38. I want an object to take me out, and I feel I must not mope in-doors.

  39. And you tell The Mope I dock him five hundred for that extra crunch on Roessle's skull.

  40. The Mope was fingering his revolver again club fashion.

  41. The Mope heard you tell the girl in yer office that if anything happened to you she was ter wise up the district attorney that there was a paper in your safe at home fer him that was important.

  42. The Mope glared from one to the other; then shook his fist at Stangeist on the floor.

  43. You get a move on before I counts five, or The Mope an' Ike ties you up!

  44. I wish you to have a warm interest in everything that tends to her comfort; but above all things, do not encourage in her that desire to be in seclusion, and to mope and groan over imaginary grievances.

  45. If you think she will mope and worry herself to death you are sadly mistaken.

  46. If you loved me, I told myself, you would not have used me so, and left me to mope alone.

  47. For hours he would mope alone, nursing his jealous mood, as though in this clownish fashion matters were to be mended.

  48. I should often get lonely and mope in the corner as you did, if I didn't get up steam.

  49. Some sink into weak sentimentality, and mope and languish; some become listless, apathetic, and float down the current of existence like driftwood.

  50. Besides, don't have much time to mope in my trade!

  51. Keenly intelligent though he is, he does not know enough to mope and refuse to sing in a cage, but whiles away the tedious hours of his captivity by all manner of amusing and delightful sounds.

  52. I had scarcely begun to mope in tranquillity, before a rapid shower trickled amongst the clusters above me, and forced me to abandon my haunt.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mope" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ache; agonize; amble; bitch; bleed; brood; brooder; dawdle; drift; fret; gloom; grieve; grouch; idler; laggard; linger; loafer; loiterer; lounger; lour; lubber; melancholic; mope; mosey; mourn; muck; pine; pout; saunter; slouch; slug; sluggard; sorrow; stroll; trifler