Moping has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | We've been moping around too much. It's time to pull ourselves together and keep trying. | |
| 2. | If I were you, Tom, I'd stop moping about the house, go outside in this lovely autumn sunshine, and pick some blackberries before they go bad. | |
| 3. | I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year. | |
| 4. | "Why do you sit moping there, Annie?" cried her brother. "Come out into the sunshine!" | |
| 5. | "Why do you sit moping there, Annie?" cried her brother. "Come out into the sunshine!" "No, thank you, Joseph. I have a slight headache and this room is deliciously cool and soothing." | |
| 6. | Stop moping about here doing nothing and get back to work quick smart. | |
| 7. | Groups of excursionists, arrayed in unattractive traveling costumes, were moping about in a drizzling rain and looking as droopy and woebegone as so many molting chickens. |