mope

He’s since apologized, saying, “I do town halls all around the world, and as you know, I mope sometimes.”

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025

"I'm still not sure I've worked out the answer to that, but I'm certainly not going to mope around."

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025

But the Bronx Bombers longtime general manager, Brian Cashman, didn’t mope, instead improving the American League champion roster with several adroit moves, starting with pitchers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

Why is it called “Uncle Vanya”? All the man does is mope, mope harder, try to do something other than moping, fail miserably and mope some more.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

Now Rhonda would move on to experience those special opportunities, while Reynie would mope his way back to the orphanage, defeated.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

He usually follows me around the house, and he mopes when I’m gone.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2022

“Maddie doesn’t listen to me,” she complains, then mopes.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2021

While David mopes around, wallowing in his angst, Georgia is a model of multitasking, caring for the kids, finishing a novel and, at one point, helping a friend give birth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2020

It seems cruel to send her off to live her final years with my in-laws because she gets sad and mopes when we’re not around.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2020

He mopes around the house, resdess, pretending to be coming down with a cold.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

A ballroom dancer who coddles his pet rats—Fred and Ginger—Declan rides a moped that his colleague, Sara Xiu, describes as “that pitiful hair-dryer on wheels.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Law enforcement officials also point out that any type of modification to e-bikes might not just be dangerous, but can also transform the e-bike into a motorcycle or moped under California law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

He said pursuits had to be considered carefully, giving an example of one moped rider spotted snatching multiple phones on Oxford Street.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

Pulling up his laptop, Dallas shows off the art for a single: On a majestic winding Italian road, ian perches pensively on a white moped, in an all-white yacht outfit, barefoot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

After our narrow brush with the drippy Miss Goodacre, the house stayed discombobulated for weeks as Harry mourned and moped.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

He doesn’t respond to his various wake-up calls with stubborn defiance but a curiosity that shifts his moping into something akin to a geeky, fun-loving second adolescence.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

Instead of moping over the setback, Ohtani has started eyeing his next boundary-pushing maneuver: To be a leadoff hitter and high-leverage reliever in the same game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025

As macho as the protagonist of a Lifetime movie, moping like an adolescent and watching too much TV, Mr. White’s Springsteen is clearly depressed, but Mr. Cooper’s script doesn’t provide much illumination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

"My whole life turned upside down, and I spent ages moping and just sitting around," said the 34-year-old.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025

On the second day of the month of August, after the supper dishes were washed up, and the Hail Marys had been done, August said, No more moping tonight, we’re going to watch Ed Sullivan.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd