Example Sentences
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But you might have no idea if you’ve been listening to hockey-ignorant media dopes like me lather attention on the incoming World Cup and the East Coast-pleasing, media-hub Knicks-Spurs NBA final.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
It’s not much of a fight — and Josh isn’t much of a catch — but one of Dunham’s talents is her ability to capture the allure of heartbreakers, scuzzballs and dopes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
This is where I’ll put on my tortilla-historian sombrero and say something you might find unbelievable: Tortilla-tossing has a long, strange history in California that’s almost never racist — until dopes make it so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2021
In a 2017 meeting at the Pentagon, he called his top generals “losers” and “a bunch of dopes and babies,” according to “A Very Stable Genius,” by Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2020
I asked them if they liked it, but do you think you could get an intelligent answer out of those three dopes?
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
