mope

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

"I'm still not sure I've worked out the answer to that, but I'm certainly not going to mope around."

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025

But the Bronx Bombers longtime general manager, Brian Cashman, didn’t mope, instead improving the American League champion roster with several adroit moves, starting with pitchers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

Fortunately, Sennott is entertaining even as a mope.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

They go out the door and don’t look back Then us hear a car motor start Dear God, Harpo mope.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

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

It seems cruel to send her off to live her final years with my in-laws because she gets sad and mopes when we’re not around.

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2020

Dad has started going to work again, but Mom mopes around the house.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

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

Anything faster is classified as an moped or e-motorcycle, which can require someone to have a motorcycle classification on their license.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Richard Thompson says his wife was working a night shift as a carer in Grimsby when her moped was stolen.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Pulling up his laptop, Dallas shows off the art for a single: On a majestic winding Italian road, ian perches pensively on a white moped, in an all-white yacht outfit, barefoot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

“They survived. A couple moped off, and the rest caught up.”

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

Why is it called “Uncle Vanya”? All the man does is mope, mope harder, try to do something other than moping, fail miserably and mope some more.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

This one day just before school was supposed to start I was moping around the back yard and thinking again how pointless and stupid everything was and Grim comes over and says, ''You know what?

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick