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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lope.

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Examples

  • On impulse, Call loped after Captain King, thinking perhaps they could negotiate for the cattle while looking for the carpenters—it might speed things up a little.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • On impulse, Call loped after Captain King, thinking perhaps they could negotiate for the cattle while looking for the carpenters—it might speed things up a little.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • On impulse, Call loped after Captain King, thinking perhaps they could negotiate for the cattle while looking for the carpenters—it might speed things up a little.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • Call loped through it with Deets, to look at the crossing.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • On impulse, Call loped after Captain King, thinking perhaps they could negotiate for the cattle while looking for the carpenters—it might speed things up a little.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • Call loped through it with Deets, to look at the crossing.

    Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

  • He had a funny walk, kind of loped, and he had - his posture wasn't great and so on.

    Philip Roth: On Writing, Aging And 'Nemesis' 2010

  • "Ony 'bout four mild," was the discouraging reply, as Youth "loped" on in advance.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

  • The exaltation of liquor, however, appeared only to intensify his characteristics: his face became more lugubrious and melancholy; his manner more ceremonious and dignified; and, erect and stiff in his saddle from the waist upwards, but leaning from side to side with the motion of his horse, like the tall mast of some laboring sloop, he "loped" away towards the House of the Lost Mission.

    Maruja Bret Harte 1869

  • They loped across the ground, splitting and braiding back and forth.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

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