Example Sentences

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"Tropes and genres and stuff. And it wasn't necessarily super-clear what the game was going to be."

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2024

That isn’t to say that Ingelsby manages — or tries? — to avoid every trope or cliché in the Big Box of Detective Story Tropes and Clichés, prime among them the well-worn Unwelcome New Partner.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2021

Since I'm ready to face plant into my keyboard as I'm typing this, allow me to share this dead-on summation of why Lifetime's movies have been going strong for 30 years, courtesy of TV Tropes.

From Salon • May 30, 2020

I still browse TV Tropes on an almost daily basis, usually while anxiously waiting for something else.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2020

Tropes are figures of various kinds, used to illustrate the subjects to which they are applied.—They embrace the Simile, Metaphor, Prosopopœia, Apostrophe, Synecdoche, Allegory, &c.

From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Bliss, Sylvester