Example Sentences

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Those who are moping around … the subs are not playing because they're no good.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2012

Why do you let people say you are moping about Chris?

From Dangerous Days by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

The boys are moping all over the place.

From Patty's Butterfly Days by Wells, Carolyn

"Well," observed Elliott, with scorn, "if you are moping and moaning over that girl,—the girl who has given you and myself every reason to wish that the ground would open and engulf us,—well, go on!"

From The King in Yellow by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

That's the thing that makes me fear that something has really happened that you are moping here inside.

From The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan by Connor, Ralph