dope

Example Sentences

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He tells the BBC that while there are clear failures with the Olympics' anti-doping protocols, the answer is reforming the system, not to dope.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

This type of silk is made inside a spider's silk gland, where silk proteins are stored as a thick liquid called "silk dope."

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2026

“I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty$,” he wrote.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026

A Super Bowl favorite—that’s right, I wasn’t the only dope to select them to go all the way—the Ravens are 1-4 after a 44-10 home thumping to the previously 1-3 Houston Texans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out In short, he was a dope.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller