How to Use dope in a Sentence

dope

1 of 2 noun

• 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
• The move came one day after the teenage Russian star Kamila Valieva, who had led her team to an apparent victory in the team event, was banned for four years for doping.
  — Andrew Das, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• De Heer added that the SEC produced this way is essentially charge neutral, and when exposed to air, it will spontaneously be doped by oxygen.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Jan. 2024

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