trope in English

noun
1
a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.
he used the two-Americas trope to explain how a nation free and democratic at home could act wantonly abroad
verb
1
create a trope.
Beatrice's tactic in wit is to trope the object of her scorn into its satirical extreme, defined here by Hero as its opposite.

Use "trope" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "trope" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "trope", or refer to the context using the word "trope" in the English Dictionary.

1. If a trope was never Averted in the past but is commonly Averted now, you may have an Evolving Trope, Cyclic Trope, or Forgotten Trope.

2. The old project trope.

3. Is a Crapshoot trope as used in popular culture

4. The Adaptational Badass trope as used in popular culture

5. The Sea Aping trope as used in popular culture

6. The trope of sight is obviously extremely important here.

7. So we've already seen the trope of the house.

8. The Clucking Funny trope as used in popular culture

9. The Compelling Voice trope as used in popular culture

10. The Balkanize Me trope as used in popular culture

11. The Addled Addict trope as used in popular culture

12. The Advert-Overloaded Future trope as used in popular culture

13. The Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage trope as used in popular culture

14. The Comically Missing the Point trope as used in popular culture

15. Reflection is the master trope of the painting, but this trope is anchored by the representation of disability, whether the work portrays one or two women.

16. Meaningless Cricketing Trope of "Leading from the Front” - OyeYeah News

17. The No-Holds-Barred Beatdown trope as used in popular culture

18. The Our Ghouls Are Creepier trope as used in popular culture

19. Knowledge of their ontological status thus functions in Textermination as a trope for indeterminacy. Sentencedict.com

20. Bluestockinged wallflower in a Regency setting? That is my favourite trope when it is well done

21. Marvel removes Antisemitic trope from Immortal Hulk comic This article is more than 1 month old

22. Synonyms for Banality include cliche, cliché, platitude, truism, bromide, trope, commonplace, shibboleth, homily and groaner

23. Later, after reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used".

24. This non-threatening Adorkable framing is designed to excuse the other more toxic part of the trope

25. As if only the savage dwelt near enough to Nature and Truth to borrow a trope from them.

26. He was acting on a common trope in literature: the collapse of our technology and a return to old ways.

27. She sits on the stairs of her lovely suburban home and raises her skirts, parting her legs—the standard trope of female submission.

28. One of the possible names for the Tavernkeep is Barkeep, a reference to the trope Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"

29. "The Babysitter" is an atmospheric psychological thriller and deconstruction of the classic Babysitter horror trope, heavily influenced by the

30. A benefits package is a very marketable advantage, one that Trope hopes will give them the edge over other independent labels.

31. They are the epitome of in-one-ear-and-out-the-other, which was my mother's trope for a failure to connect.

32. I talked to Yaacov Trope, a New York University professor who has researched how people's reactions change as they get nearer to a situation.

33. The scheme became a common trope in detective fiction, but there are almost no documented cases of a criminal forging another person's fingerprint.

34. Blaming women for male lust is an old and all-too-common trope among those who commit or excuse violence against women

35. Anthropophagy Carlos JáureguiCannibalism, as a trope that sustains the very distinction between savagery and civilization, is a cornerstone of colonialism

36. His new book, 11/22/ riffs on an old trope: If you could go back in time and stop a horrible event, would you?

37. These are Blackamoors—a trope in Italian decorative art especially common in pieces of furniture, but also appearing in paintings, jewelry, and textiles.

38. Dr. Trope believes the shift in my mind occurred when dropping prices suddenly made a big-screen TV a real possibility for me.

39. As its supertrope, Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" trope says, some characters have the misfortune of being known only by their job title

40. Elements of the Beatnik trope included pseudo-intellectualism, drug use, and a cartoonish depiction of real-life people along with the spiritual quest of Jack Kerouac's

41. Otherwise, this trope is inverted: Yakumo can fight Barehanded but is not shy about using hidden blades, swords and whatever he can pick up for a fight.

42. Poor messaging isn't the only possible cause for the increase in denial: politicians — mostly on the right — have aggressively pushed the climate-change-is-a-hoax trope.

43. Strangely enough, the Bleep effect often makes the joke funnier than if the swear word had actually been used (thus forming the premise of This Trope Is Bleep comedy)

44. Siemens, a professor of European history at Newcastle University, looks beyond the traditional trope of the SA, or "Brownshirts" as they were commonly known, as a …

45. If some of the villainous undertones resonate with Apartheidism, well, it's Neill Blomkamp directing and besides, those evil South Africans are always a convenient trope to use

46. It's useful to keep that in mind as the trope about soft power again gets earnestly bandied about, only this time with China as the newly ascendant power.

47. The cougar trope started out as a joke about desperate older women. Now it's gone mainstream, even in Hollywood, home to the 50-something producer with a starlet on his arm.

48. While the Amusing Alien might have a mundane purpose in the story, a character belongs in this trope only if comedy is their primary reason for existing in the work.

49. IBM knew from the Kasparov vs. Deep Blue days that we're all suckers for the "man vs. machine" trope, going back to John Henry's mythical race against the steam-powered hammer.

50. The Broodiness of the Tasmanian landscape is a common trope in Tasmanian Gothic cinema; there is a sense that the landscape harbours and shrouds the secrets of pasts not easily admitted