loped

Example Sentences

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But by the time Holiday had sprinted to the basket, Wembanyama had loped over, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

One morning in January, about 30 ninth and 10th graders, many of them dressed in navy blue school sweatshirts and gray pants, loped into a class called Software Engineering 1.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2023

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

Her brother ignored her for a moment but then, as if he had been judging the limits of his sister’s patience, he loped over and dropped the toy at her paws.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker