MOPED in a Sentence

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For MOPED, below is one of 16 sentences:
He moped after her departure from Holdernesse Hall, and it was for this reason that the Duke desired to send him to my establishment.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOPED
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moped
 n.  lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit
Classic Sentence:
1  He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  One rainy afternoon when Bonnie was barely past her first birthday, Wade moped about the sitting room, occasionally going to the window and flattening his nose on the dripping pane.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  He moped after her departure from Holdernesse Hall, and it was for this reason that the Duke desired to send him to my establishment.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
4  I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for moping and droning in.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
5  Mrs. Gummidge, no longer moping in her especial corner, was busy preparing breakfast.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
6  Through several succeeding days he saw her at different times from the window of his room moping disconsolately about the garden.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
7  "I've been moping in the house all day since Watson went off in the morning," said the baronet.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
8  In the afternoon Becky Thatcher found herself moping about the deserted schoolhouse yard, and feeling very melancholy.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  She has abandoned her Tuesdays at home, has thrown over all her acquaintances, and goes tramping about by herself, moping in the street-cars, getting in after dark.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXII
10  Atlanta was more interesting than Savannah or Charleston or Tara and it offered so many strange war-time occupations she had little time to think or mope.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  After that he began to mope by himself, talking to no one and wandering about by himself.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
Example Sentence:
1  They all saw a youth died while driving a moped with no helmet.
2  He moped around the office for a while, feeling bored.
3  Instead of moping around the house all day, you should be out there looking for a job.
4  I mope for a while, during which I may curse some more because a good curse needs mileage to really sharpen its impact.
5  The streets of Beijing are thronged with two-wheeled contraptions; some appear to be conventional petrol mopeds but their eerie silence and lack of exhaust reveals them as electric.