mope
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It was frustrating to watch Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda mope around the first two seasons, trying to find their place in a world that changed too fast for them to keep up.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025
Fortunately, Sennott is entertaining even as a mope.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
On its surface level, however, “I Saw the TV Glow” is just about a mope.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
But with its relentlessly recriminatory tone, it's often more mope opera than soap opera.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2023
“You’re not going to mope around the kitchen without being put to work. See those kidneys on the counter? Cook them up for the cats.”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
Rather than drive back home, Drew mopes around the property.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2020
He complains he’s getting out of shape, but then just mopes around the house and watches Star Wars for the bazillionth time.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
Soon, Hieu was wedged between mom and dad for a sweaty 45-minute moped ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Simson's moped division puttered on after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall but eventually went bust in 2002.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
About 10 police vehicles were in attendance, with a Lime bike, cement lorry, two cars and a moped parked within the cordon.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
He moped around for a while, but gradually things got back to normal.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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
You could spend your whole life feeling bad about it, and I get the idea Mother especially is still moping around.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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