How to Use trope in a Sentence
trope
noun
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Even the text of the libretto seems weary of the trope.
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Michael Andor Brodeur,
Washington Post,
22 Sep. 2023
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And that’s been the trope all along—if them, why not us?
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Patrick J. Deneen,
Harper’s Magazine ,
5 Jan. 2023
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The trope has reared its head again online ahead of the midterms.
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Cecilia Kang,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2022
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Chinn teases us with the tropes of the high school genre.
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Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2024
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In truth, the mixing of the mournful and the clownish is a stale trope.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2021
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The anti-Semitic tropes have no place in the discourse.
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Eli Rosenberg,
The Seattle Times,
6 Nov. 2018
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Roseanna is more wrapped up in Dead Girl genre tropes than the rest of the books.
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Alice Bolin,
Longreads,
26 June 2018
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These are easy tropes to fall back on this time of year.
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Jeff Sanders,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
15 Nov. 2017
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The name Becky is a pop trope, and it’s been used in music for decades.
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Cat Cardenas,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2022
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One of the worst horror movie tropes is the death of the family dog.
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Kelly Conaboy,
The Cut,
25 June 2018
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The enemies-to-lovers trope is one of the best in romance.
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Emily Burack,
Town & Country,
10 Apr. 2022
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This one hits one of our favorite tropes in all the right places.
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Julia Moore,
Peoplemag,
12 Apr. 2024
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But Thede assures that Black’s role in the show will be far from that of a trope.
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Clarkisha Kent,
EW.com,
2 Aug. 2019
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Of course, this has been a standard trope in games for years.
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Todd Martens Game Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2021
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For once, the old trope may not be ill advised: buy gold.
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Jon Sindreu,
WSJ,
3 Mar. 2022
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So there’s all these racist tropes about black folks, which are that ...
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Eric Johnson,
Recode,
8 Oct. 2018
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That, to me, felt like an avoidance of some of the tropes around this kind of story.
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Lexy Perez,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 May 2024
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The old trope was a hippie freaked out on too much acid who jumped off a roof.
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Alex Kuczynski,
Town & Country,
20 Jan. 2022
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That's such a fun play on the fairytale trope that made for a cute moment.
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refinery29.com,
1 May 2022
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The Comeback is among the most reliable tropes in all of sports.
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Tim Layden,
SI.com,
3 Apr. 2018
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The sound of a crying baby on a flight is among the most overused tropes in flying.
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Ryan Craggs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 June 2017
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In the foreground, Friedrich has installed one of his go-to tropes: an open grave.
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Zachary Fine,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2024
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These days, the trope feels more than a little bit dated.
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Becca Endicott,
ELLE Decor,
13 Nov. 2017
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So that’s a more modern rendition of the same kind of trope.
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Geek's Guide To The Galaxy,
WIRED,
28 Sep. 2019
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But that’s what makes this season’s spin on this Drag Race trope so good.
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Paul McCallion,
Vulture,
19 Aug. 2021
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Josie and the Pussycats subverted those tropes off and on-screen.
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Anne Cohen,
refinery29.com,
4 Feb. 2020
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In tales of princes and princesses, the trope of the wicked stepmother is timeless.
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Time,
10 Jan. 2023
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But looky here, the trope that families don’t like going to the movies isn’t true.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
30 Aug. 2024
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Comments The cabin in the woods setting for horror movies is a trope for a reason.
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James Mercadante,
EW.com,
22 Oct. 2024
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Materials, too, break from neutral modernist tropes, with allusions to the lapis lazuli and bronze of artifacts.
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Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
10 Oct. 2024
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