trope
Example Sentences
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By the end, every trope the director uses has been bled dry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The cop on his last day before retirement is a trope that needs to be sent out to pasture.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
Magazines, of course, didn’t originate the longstanding trope of a new year as a site of reinvention, clean slates, new leaves.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026
Spy thrillers have also long featured prominently, often portraying Pakistan as the biggest threat to India - a familiar trope rooted in decades of geopolitical tension between the two countries.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
A trope, which is just a way to believe.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
