lope

[US]/ləʊp/
[UK]/loʊp/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vi. run with a steady, easy gait
n. a steady, easy gait

Phrases & Collocations

lope gracefully

Example Sentences

Colloform, frambo idal textures and laminated, brecciated structures of exhalation are widely deve loped in the stratiform ores.

The horse began to lope across the field.

He watched the deer lope gracefully through the forest.

The cheetah can lope at incredible speeds.

She likes to lope along the beach at sunset.

The wolf began to lope after its prey.

The jogger decided to lope for the last stretch of their run.

The kangaroo can lope great distances in a single bound.

She watched her dog lope happily in the park.

The mountain lion began to lope towards its den.

The marathon runner had to lope the last few miles due to fatigue.

Real-world Examples

He loped with an easy grace, his hands in his pockets and a grin on his face.

Source: 7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Morgan was loping the lopsided branch of the loquat.

Source: Pan Pan

After a minute, the anteater stops feeding, scratches the goo away, and lopes off.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

The slow lope of the cam.

Source: No Country for Old Men

As Tim loped through the cemetery grounds, Maeve recounted how she and Joe came to own Jerpoint Park 16 years ago.

Source: BBC Reading Selection

After some time of this the wolf started off at an easy lope in a manner that plainly showed he was going somewhere.

Source: The Call of the Wild

" I don't have to. I'm the king" . Robb turned and walked off, Grey Wind bounding down from the tomb and loping after him.

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Ice and Rain (Bilingual)

As I watched, the small girl rose with her tray-unopened soda, unbitten apple-and walked away with a quick, graceful lope that belonged on a runway.

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

And spectators found it whenever he played, with his elegant gazelle runs, his leaps and accelerations, his classy back-heels and his long, loping passes from midfield.

Source: The Economist - Comprehensive

" Ha! that rampaging devil again! there will never be an end of his loping till 'killdeer' has said a friendly word to him" .

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (Chinese)

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