lope
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The only time I remember them speaking is a goodbye as he turns his back to lope down a hallway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026
But soon his sprint slows and his legs start to lope as his arms swing with less force.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
We stroll, stride, plod, traipse, amble, saunter, shuffle, tiptoe, lumber, tromp, lope, strut and swagger.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2022
If you’ve ridden a horse, think lope gait.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2020
The dogs were still running at a lope, though we had come over seven miles, and I was full of them; my life was full of them.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
In a wordless two-page spread, a dog lopes solemnly toward the pickle, trailed by a mournful earthworm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The NWS has warned that severe weather could return later this week as a storm lopes into the Great Lakes region over Friday and Saturday.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2024
His dog Obie, a hound mix, lopes ahead, stopping to shove his snout under intriguing rocks and logs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
The dialogue lopes freely between English and Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
Our teammates on the bench jump to their feet, cheering as my cousin lopes easily around the bases.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
But by the time Holiday had sprinted to the basket, Wembanyama had loped over, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Since then, director Julie Taymor’s life-size puppets of elephants and rhinoceros, leopards and giraffes have loped onto the Broadway stage for the heart-stopping opener, “The Circle of Life,” on more than 9,750 evenings and afternoons.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022
Then we waited a few more minutes while our kids loped back and forth between the hoops, not really communicating, before taking our charges home.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2022
The risk did not pay off - Russell ran wide at the second corner on his first attempt, put a wheel on the painted pit-exit line and loped into a slow spin.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2022
The panic in her voice only seemed to spur Runt on—he rose again to get her position and then loped in joyful bounds toward her.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
And although his style looks easy, like he’s loping to the library, it’s profoundly efficient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2025
It was Wayne — America’s biggest movie star, the self-reliant enforcer, the loping lawman who set the world to rights by virtue of his unbending fortitude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
Waddle soon became the toast of Provence with his easy, loping style earning him the nickname 'Magie Chris' - Magic Chris - as he went on to score 28 goals in 140 appearances for OM.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
The short-statured Homo floresiensis, sometimes known as the “Hobbit,” was living in Indonesia, while the long-legged Homo erectus was loping around Asia.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
“Hey, it’s Really Riley,” he panted, loping up from the side of our garage.
From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold
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