How to Use dope in a Sentence

dope

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• What a dope he is.
• They were caught smoking dope.
• The music was fresh, the movies were dope and the hair was big.
  — New York Times, 29 Nov. 2021
• Plus, my band got to be a part of it with me, which was so dope.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• Got no time for the rope-a-dope, Wallace is gonna ride like the Pope.
  — Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
• Quincy [Jones] got a chance to hear it, and that was dope.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2023
• Freddie Gibbs is no stranger to putting out dope work for the clique.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 19 Feb. 2021
• Raq is in full-mom mode while Kanan is in dope boy mode.
  — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021
• There’s still a lot of dope drill, and a lot of people doing it.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 3 Feb. 2023
• That’s kind of dope that there’s now two Michael Jordans.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• The photos showed the second New Yorker putting a dope shipment in the mail.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
• At the time Snoop said the job paid in the mid-5 figures, with perks including free dope, of course.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 June 2022
• The love online has been very kind, very dope, and very genuine.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2023
• For a look at all the deals that are too dope to miss this Black Friday, check them out in the gallery below.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 27 Nov. 2019
• And now, when someone comes up and the person is dope, that is a blessing from God.
  — Robert Solomon, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2022
• So for her to have listened to me and write this character in this way is dope.
  — Kellee Terrell, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2019
• In the age of branding, not being afraid to be known for trying things out is so dope to me.
  — Candace McDuffie, Glamour, 22 Feb. 2022
• To inspire you, see all the times Rihanna rocked the dope ‘do below.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 30 Sep. 2019
• What makes this, this project so dope is that an artist like Tobe [has] to be at the forefront of the discussion of change.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 19 June 2021
• Either way, the Dragster isn't going away and that's dope.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2023
• Not only is his name short and cool, but his music is just as dope.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2022
• None of his style choices are cool, but Motown is dope.
  — Derek Scancarelli, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• To finally have it in hand and to see your vision come to light was a dope moment.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2021
• There was the Judgment Night soundtrack mixing rock and rap, which was dope.
  — Vulture, 3 Apr. 2023
• In the police department, the metrics of success were guns and dope on the table.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 2 June 2022
• The long answer to that dope question is, there’s always some art that’s going to turn me on.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 June 2023
• Leon yelps, snatching the dregs of the bathhouse dope as Jimmy goes full fathom five.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
• To me, a TV series sounded dope, but I was driven to see our story on the big screen.
  — Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2021
• His brush with death had fazed him less than his roiling dope sickness.
  — Wired, 15 Sep. 2019
• It’s been dope to see a lot of female rappers dominate the charts.
  — D'shonda Brown, Essence, 1 Apr. 2021

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dope

2 of 2 verb

• They tried to dope him.
• The Chinese star with a history of doping failed to medal in the 800 free.
  — Beth Harris, baltimoresun.com, 24 July 2019
• The undies are super soft and the designs and really dope!
  — Stephanie Dunivan, Essence, 1 Sep. 2022
• The channel region has the opposite doping to the source and drain.
  — Marko Radosavljevic, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2022
• Is there too much focus on the athletes who dope, rather than on the people or systems that guide the athletes?
  — Dan Weil, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• Sun was banned by the sport in 2014 for testing positive for doping.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 24 July 2019
• During the 1994 World Cup, Maradona played in just two games before doping tests found ephedrine in his urine sample.
  — Lewis Kamb, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• But he was stripped of his titles and banned for life from the sport in 2012, as doping allegations mounted.
  — Dale Robertson, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2018
• On a bed, a husband rapes his wife doped on medication.
  — Beatrice Christofaro, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• Nearly 60% of all anti-doping tests in human sport are OOCT.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 25 June 2018
• The money will be used to fund anti-doping initiatives.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2018
• Mr Mutko himself landed at the centre of the Sochi Winter Olympics doping scandal.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2018
• Let’s be clear: most sports contend with doping issues.
  — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 3 July 2018
• Salazar wrote to the world’s most famous cyclist, who himself was only months away from being banned for life for doping.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• In the wake of the Santa Anita carnage, new rules were written to address track safety, the health of the horses, and a hodge-podge of doping rules that varied from state to state.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 5 May 2023
• This new frontier of doping presented a simple and dark idea: What if there was a way for dopers to never be caught?
  — Nick Busca, CNN, 13 Apr. 2018
• Rupp earned the win with his new coach, Mike Smith, after former coach Alberto Salazar received a four-year doping ban in 2019.
  — Charles Odum, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Feb. 2020
• The Oregon Project has never and will never permit doping.
  — John Meyer, The Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2019
• To solve this problem, a group of researchers used a nanoparticle that was doped with ytterbium (a rare-earth metal).
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
• The deaths dealt further blows to a sport already reeling from a series of doping suspensions and breakdowns.
  — Mark Graves | , oregonlive, 7 May 2023
• Not because of the tired cliche that curling isn't a real sport (and therefore, why would a curler need to dope?) But because doping goes against the very essence of what curling is all about.
  — Kristen Gelineau, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
• The race has had other blemishes this year, all related to a dog doping scandal.
  — Mark Thiessen, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
• As a punishment for doping in the Sochi Olympics in 2014, Russian athletes cannot compete under the Russian flag.
  — Emma Baty, Cosmopolitan, 14 Feb. 2018
• Sailors and families affected by doping said the move to begin testing was long past due.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Armstrong, 46, won the Tour de France seven times, but was later stripped of his titles for doping offenses.
  — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• What happens to the Olympic medals now that Russian skater Kamila Valieva has been sanctioned for doping?
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Since the sport, as well as many in the news media and fans, turned a blind eye to doping in the 1990s, today's leaders can't simply shrug off suggestions that players are juicing again.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 July 2019
• Among the hurdles the sport faces is a reputation for danger in the wake of various high-profile deaths and a recent doping scandal.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
• Tough to dope out a week when the possibilities include four games in five days, or maybe a two-day break before a wild-card game, or the saddest scenario of all - see you next spring.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
• The general practice is to reallocate the purse to other owners in the event a winning horse is later proven to have been doped, but not to pay back bettors.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018

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