- present tense form of mope (3rd person singular).
mopes
Example Sentences
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The sun suddenly sinks, and the mopokes burst out into horrible peals of semi-human laughter.
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
Spend the whole blessed day, and come home with the mopokes.
From A Little Bush Maid by Bruce, Mary Grant
The sun suddenly sinks and the mopokes burst out into horrible peals of semi-human laughter.’
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
We could n't, except that of wallabies and mopokes.
From On Our Selection by Rudd, Steele
Aunt Helen dropped to sleep in a short time; but I lay awake listening to the soft distant call of the mopokes in the scrub beyond the stables.
From My Brilliant Career by Franklin, Miles