mope
verb (used without object)
to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
was moping
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past progressiveof mope.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Just inside the door to the gym, an interior-design graduate student was moping.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2019
I was moping around and that’s why he asked me to do it.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2017
I had just spent Thanksgiving at my recently engaged younger sister’s house and was moping my way through the security line at Dulles Airport.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2010
Goldberg remembers another of the band's handlers once asking the singer why he was moping.
From Time Magazine Archive
This one day just before school was supposed to start I was moping around the back yard and thinking again how pointless and stupid everything was and Grim comes over and says, ''You know what?
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
