lope
Example Sentences
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Wolf left the Den and loped up to the ridge above the valley to catch the smell on the wind: a powerful smell of rotten prey like a very old kill -except that it moved.
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The dogs were still running at a lope, though we had come over seven miles, and I was full of them; my life was full of them.
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The dogs ran together in long, loping strides.
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She was off in an instant, ears back, loping across the field.
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Then he tore out of the blacksmith shop in a loping run.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.