verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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It would benefit no one if we all sat around moping for the next week.
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Instead of spending all day moping around the house, why not come help me pick beans?
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Jamie was moping around his flat, existing on cups of tea and stale bread toast.
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Stephen didn't expect her to mope around while he was away on business.
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After all, have you seen me moping around the place recently, getting depressed, crying?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't just lie there moping, waiting for the phone to ring.
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He's not even attempting to look for a job -- he just mopes around the house all day.
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She's just been sitting around moping all day.
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There's no point moping over Jane - she's not worth it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But she did not leave them uneasy with the social order or moping with guilt over their comfortable circumstances in life.
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I breezed away into a corner where I could sip my vodka-less tonic and mope .
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Instead of spending all day moping around the house, why not come help me pick beans?
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It would benefit no one if we all sat around moping for the next week.
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Jamie was moping around his flat, existing on cups of tea and stale bread toast.
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My Oscars are spending a lot of time moping on the bottom of the tank.
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Other Acutes mope around the room and try not to pay any attention to him.