Sentence examples for dope out from inspiring English sources
verb
To figure out, to find out, find, decipher
The club's problem is to dope out some port of call that does not lie in the restricted area.
It's hard to dope out what, exactly, flavors the lemony, faintly soyish marinade that powers the excellent barbecued chicken ($12).
First he has to dope out who is involved in the murder he is supposed to commit.
Rushbrook anxiously studies all the pictures of Churchill trying to dope out what kind of cigars he's using; he's afraid the Cuban cigars will ruin his digestion, or worse.
No. 279 explains that there has been "a lack of proper restraint of the animal," which, we discovered means that the scientists couldn't dope out a way to hold a beaver while it was being examined.
Here, and in a few other stories, a nudge (sometimes a shove) of melodrama is redeemed by the splendidly detailed setting over which the boys range, and the untutored inklings they use to dope out the adult world.
He hasn't doped out that Anderson is the rich guy wrestling with guilt or that Rob's anger is a result of resentment.
The genius of this office has doped out a perfectly simple way of collecting a 7 cents or 8 cents fare without the use of a single penny.
A witness at the scene tweeted the owner was "doped out".
"We had the meet doped out that we were going to lose," Cushing-murray said.
The contestants project an eclectic variety of brainiacs, the most effective being Eric Anderson's eccentric Barfee ("It's pronounced Bar-FAY," he insists futilely), who has a unique talent for doping out the spelling of a word – with his foot.
