lope
Example Sentences
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Alexander’s stiff-backed schoolboy posture gradually altered into a light-footed loping stride.
From Literature
And although his style looks easy, like he’s loping to the library, it’s profoundly efficient.
Adam Wharton is surely an England regular in the making, the loping socks-down style not disguising an elegant, competitive midfield operator of the highest order.
From BBC
His long, loping stride ratcheted up in rhythm over the final two laps, squeezing lungs and fraying rivals' form behind him.
From BBC
It was Wayne — America’s biggest movie star, the self-reliant enforcer, the loping lawman who set the world to rights by virtue of his unbending fortitude.
From Los Angeles Times
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