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

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

Alexander loped across the nursery, fetched a ball out of the toy trunk, and brought it back to drop at Penelope’s feet.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood