mope

Example Sentences

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Everyone has noticed me moping around the house, but I’ve refused to talk about what happened.

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“You need to be with other kids, instead of moping around here all day.”

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For now, there was a fresh basket of superb bread every morning, no Gogolev moping about, and countless baby presents to knit.

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Penelope sat up extra straight in her chair, much the way Miss Mortimer did when she was reminding the girls at Swanburne not to mope and complain.

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A Swanburne girl does not mope, as Penelope had been taught countless times, and so she tried her best to put the whole subject out of her mind and think of other, happier things.

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