Examples of dropping in a Sentence
the only bad part about owning a rabbit was cleaning the droppings out of the litter box every night
the dropping of an act from the talent show should bring it in on time
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If anything, after setting the pace for most of the 2022-23 title race, the last two seasons have shown how costly dropping points early on can be.
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Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
Scattering from the air: Florida doesn’t prohibit the scattering of ashes by air, but the Federal Aviation Administration has guidelines prohibiting the dropping of anything from a plane that could injure people below.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
Today, 80 years after the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and on Nagasaki, debate still continues over their use, which resulted in an unprecedented number of deaths, destruction, and long-term health effects on survivors.
—Paul L. Newman, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2025
Thus my photo of the F-105 dropping napalm on a jungled hillside as far from my camera in 1970 as our condo near the Bell Museum on Larpenteur is from the deli at Como and Snelling.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
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Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
Scattering from the air: Florida doesn’t prohibit the scattering of ashes by air, but the Federal Aviation Administration has guidelines prohibiting the dropping of anything from a plane that could injure people below.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
Today, 80 years after the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and on Nagasaki, debate still continues over their use, which resulted in an unprecedented number of deaths, destruction, and long-term health effects on survivors.
—Paul L. Newman, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2025
Thus my photo of the F-105 dropping napalm on a jungled hillside as far from my camera in 1970 as our condo near the Bell Museum on Larpenteur is from the deli at Como and Snelling.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
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“Dropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dropping. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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