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How to use dope in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Dope means any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface. Example: “What's the latest dope on the stock market?”

Examples of dope by meaning

nounAny viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

  • Use a good pipe dope on the NPT threads.1977, Robert O. Parmley, Standard Handbook of Fastening and Joining, New York: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 247

nounAn opiate, now particularly heroin.

  • Grinding may make a second-hand genius of you (for all the real things are dead), and if you become a genius you will be sure to smoke dope or swallow laudanum.1900, “Gifford Arthur Nelson”, in The Naughty-Naughtian, page 118
  • Not until she accompanied a girl to an opium joint to discover whether dope had the merits claimed for it as a deadener of pain and a producer of happiness—not until then did Freddie come in person.a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
  • We watched as he got his works and squirted water out first, then stuck the tip of the needle into the dope and sucked it up before finding a vein and sticking it into his arm.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 50

nounMarijuana.

  • Some people say that dope kills brain cells, but I can't figure out how they found that out.1983 March 28, “Smokin'”, in The Breeze, James Madison University, Readers' Forum, page 19
  • At a suburban station, there were kids hanging around smoking dope, as ticketless entry through the exit doors is easy for them.2024 May 29, Christian Wolmar, “The good and bad sides of the Parisian Metro”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 44

nounInformation, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.

  • What's the latest dope on the stock market?
  • Got a friend with him, but he don't seem to fit the dope on the other two.'1954, Ian Fleming, “Nigger Heaven”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957
  • When the people's champ gives us the dope on corporate bosses and sweatshop kings, he never presents their greed as some kind of deplorable personal trait.2000 August 7, Robert Newman, “Performers of the world unite”, in The Guardian

verbTo affect with drugs.

  • He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break.1915, Jack London, chapter 2, in The Star Rover

verbTo add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).

  • Another way to dope semiconductors is to use materials like boron, in which each atom has one fewer valence electron than does a sillicon atom.2011, Cathleen Shamieh, Gordon McComb, Electronics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 113

verbTo use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sporting competitions.

  • The more experienced cyclists, who doped or used to dope, transmitted the culture of doping to the younger cyclists, teaching them doping methods and suggesting which substances to use.2015, Vassilis Barkoukis, Lambros Lazuras, Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis, The Psychology of Doping in Sport, Routledge, →ISBN

adjectiveAmazing; cool.

  • That party was dope!
  • The dope conceptual beauty of the Jungle Brothers is the upful spin they put on black consciousness music, showing that being pro-black can be as much about hot fun in the summertime as gearing up for the next time.1990, SPIN, volume 5, number 10, page 74
  • That was dope, E.2015, Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, Straight Outta Compton (motion picture), spoken by Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins)

More sentences with dope

  • He was so doped after the surgery that it took him 2 hours to remember his name.From the entry doped
  • The silicon was doped with boron to make a p-type semiconductor.From the entry doped
  • She said she needed to go to the dope man's house to pick it up.From the entry dope man
  • The dealers managed to store the dope in the stash just in time to avoid being caught by the police.From the entry stash
  • Rennie was interviewed in the VICE News Tonight documentary, Beyond Fentanyl, about his addiction to benzo dope.2023 May 4, Manisha Krishnan, “Man Arrested After Opening Heroin, Cocaine, and Meth Store in Canada”, in Vice. From the entry benzo
  • Plus, he was gorilla pimping them trying to make them buy his dope.2017, Lex, CheckMate - It's Your Move, page 47. From the entry gorilla pimp
  • Every year, thousands of citizens get a criminal record for possessing dope.2016 March 11, Janet Street-Porter, “The Lib Dems should vote to legalise drugs. That would give us something to smile about – and believe…. From the entry little fingernail
  • Your coat has to really be on fleek to be dope in New York.2015 February, Dio Anthony, quoting Xosha Roquemore, “Xosha Roquemore: The Realist”, in Aleksandar Tomovic, editor, Bello, West Hollywood…. From the entry on fleek
  • The lovable dope admitted stealing glimpses of her as she rounded the table shooting.2013, Billy-John, Cougar Shame. From the entry cherriest
  • She shrugged and set down the dope stick she'd been puffing on.2012, Alan Dean Foster, The Moment of the Magician. From the entry dope stick
  • Her biggest fear was eating away at her: was she going to be busted for smoking dope?2009, Colin McLaren, Infiltration: The True Story of the Man Who Cracked the Mafia, page 68. From the entry choof
  • You may know a lot about chemistry, man, but you don't know jack about slinging dope.2008, Breaking Bad, Season 1, Episode 6. From the entry sling
  • I brought you in to get the straight dope direct from your mate the General.2003, Glen Conrad, Walk a Mile in My Shoes, page 300. From the entry come the raw prawn
  • "Stick that in your dope stick and smoke it," muttered a trooper.2003, Timothy Pilgrim, Ro, page 177. From the entry dope stick
  • Also, he probably attends harness races, for he once accidentally left a dope sheet behind.2002, Walt McConville, Trabler Travel Tales, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry dope sheet
  • Set over the period of one day, 'real time' is relentlessly giving way to dope time.2001, Screen - Volume 42, page 370. From the entry dope time
  • And talking of dopes, why don't you boogy on over to Thresher for a refresher.2001, Robert Swindells, Wrecked, page 9. From the entry boogy
  • The dope slangers, the gang bangers, the street corner hangers are all a part of the village.1994, Tom Benjamin, The Home Alone Syndrome: A Parent's Handbook for Survival, page 97. From the entry slanger
  • Often the hiding places are so obscure, only a dope dog will find the evidence.1992, Gary J. Miller, Drugs and the Law: Detection, Recognition & Investigation. From the entry dope dog
  • When it reaches Karachi, the dope rings and sailors take over for the sea route to Bombay.1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 143. From the entry dope-ring
  • “You some kind of confidence man or dope peddler or something?1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 330. From the entry pigeon drop
  • To them consistency, morality and truthfulness are ‘bushwah’ dope that drugs workers and delays the revolution.”1947, The International Bookbinder, volume 48, page 6. From the entry bushwah
  • I had been shot full of dope to keep me quiet.1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 176. From the entry scopolamine
  • Boy toy named Troy, used to live in Detroit, big dope dealer money he was getting some coin.2014, Nicki Minaj, “Anaconda”, in The Pinkprint. From the entry coin
  • Porchy: Blottin' dope on the block, going on these shows.2014 August 18, “Earth Burns”performed by Porchy,Oxxxymiron. From the entry blot

Meaning of dope

  1. noun Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
  2. noun An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
  3. noun Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.

Full definition of dope

Questions about dope in a sentence

How do you use dope in a sentence?
Dope is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “What's the latest dope on the stock market?”
What is a short sentence with dope?
“That party was dope!”
What does dope mean?
Dope means any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

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