dope

Example Sentences

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“I was a dope for responding to that at all,” Tramo said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 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

But the principal didn’t seem to notice what a dope Trotter was.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson