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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The inspector counted 58 rodent droppings in the kitchen: three on the floor in the food prep/dishwasher area; five on dry storage shelves or boxes; three on the floor and 50 on the floor in dry storage.
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David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
So how did this Trump end up bombing Iran, becoming the first president to authorize the dropping of some of America’s most lethal nonnuclear bombs?
—Ian Swanson, The Hill, 22 June 2025
At that point, things spun out of control, with the grid frequency dropping.
—ArsTechnica, 18 June 2025
In the clip, viewed more than 1.5 million times, Maillet showed a sleek black car—almost entirely covered with large bird droppings.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
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David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
So how did this Trump end up bombing Iran, becoming the first president to authorize the dropping of some of America’s most lethal nonnuclear bombs?
—Ian Swanson, The Hill, 22 June 2025
At that point, things spun out of control, with the grid frequency dropping.
—ArsTechnica, 18 June 2025
In the clip, viewed more than 1.5 million times, Maillet showed a sleek black car—almost entirely covered with large bird droppings.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
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“Dropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dropping. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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