A smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop.
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Examples for "lope "
Examples for "lope "
1 He put the old nag in a lope down the rocky creek.
2 Their own horses have only two gaits: the lope and the gallop.
3 The little animal gamely responded and plunged forward at a quick lope .
4 You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe.
5 Waring glanced back at the sun, and put Dex to a lope .
1 Then the Englishman thought it time to whip up and canter in.
2 Existing for the race, they enjoy existence merely in the preliminary canter .
3 The creatures kept on at a swinging canter ; never at a walk.
4 Perhaps nowhere in the world can one get a more delicious canter .
5 Unconscious of this additional obstacle, the rider set off in a canter .
6 The pony jumped to a canter at the touch of her Jaeel.
7 The horses canter around, clearly delighted to be in this idyllic place.
8 Mounting, he started homeward in a brisk canter through the clear moonlight.
9 The 'orses are just going up the course for the preliminary canter .
10 We take a quick canter through all the major myths and legends.
11 In contrast, Djokovic had won his last four matches at a canter .
12 Jane released her horse and watched him canter over to the stable.
13 Hold on with your right knee and sit down for the canter .
14 During the foregoing conversation we had been travelling at a six-mile canter .
15 With that he was off at a brisk canter toward the herd.
16 Urging his horse to a canter , he soon caught up with them.
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