How to Use cope in a Sentence

cope

verb
  • To help cope with his grief, Taylor, who had run track and field in high school, joined the 1000 Mile Club.
    Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
  • For her part, VB has learned to cope with being the apple of the paparazzi’s eye.
    Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Keep in Mind This doesn't come with coping strips for the pool liner.
    Veronica Graham, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
  • The human body, says Stitzel, did not evolve to cope with impacts of this order.
    Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Grid managers have had to find backup sources of energy to cope with the eclipse.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Another thing to keep in mind: The set doesn't include coping strips to hold the liner in place.
    Veronica Graham, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
  • There are as many answers as there are people trying to cope.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Transporting dogs out of the area is part of the coping strategy for the shelter.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Retailers have struggled to cope with an alarming surge in theft over the past few years.
    Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 20 June 2023
  • Faulk said her parents divorced when Faulk was in her 20s and her mother had a hard time coping with the loss.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Quit being such snowflake whiners and cope with your feelings.
    Randy Dotinga, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • Those are coping skills that have been forcibly taken, Beltran said.
    Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Perhaps, there’s a better way to cope with a high-risk pregnancy than the five months of bed rest Cindy waited through.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Martin shares their efforts to cope with feelings in a healthy manner.
    Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • One way that Dunn has been able to cope with the aftermath of the Capitol riots is by sharing his story.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Now that he is gone, the stubborn style, the acid wit, even the spells of narcissism, appear to have been a coping mechanism.
    Martin Amis, Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • Meanwhile in Texas, Ms. Feldman, a writer, turns to a familiar tool to cope.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Her teachers and friends are trying to cope, haunted by her absence and the circumstances of her death, Hawkins says.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
  • How might someone cope with becoming a mother in a world on the brink of apocalypse?
    Talya Zax, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • Many have no nest egg, and some are coping with social isolation.
    Jeffrey E. Singer, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • At the same time, D.C. police have been coping with a personnel shortage.
    John D. Harden, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • This risk is especially true if a person lacks the skills or social support to cope with stress.
    Sarah Schuster, Health, 14 Apr. 2024
  • One or any combination of threats may keep them on high alert or shut them down in a way that prevents them from trying to cope at all.
    Lawson R. Wulsin, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
  • If your goal is to find effective ways to cope with your frustration, therapy would help to lead you there.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Beckham coped through heavy alcohol use, which led to a DUI and a near-fatal car accident in 2020.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Hoboken has been adding infrastructure to cope with both rain as well as sea-level rise.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Quite an industry has developed to cope with these weeds.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • But when a disagreement occurs between them, one-half of the coupling resorts to a unique coping method.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Read on to learn what nocturnal polyuria is, including symptoms, causes, ways to cope, and more.
    Sarah Bradley, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Migrants will play crucial roles in the retrofitting of host nations to cope with the climate volatility that has ravaged their own–helping to future-proof their economies in the process.
    Parag Khanna, Fortune Europe, 1 Dec. 2023

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