How to Use dropping in a Sentence

dropping

noun

• The play was one of the most jaw-dropping of the NFL season.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
• And those of you who watch this will know the dropping of the vase was like ...
  — WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022
• The trailer is the second for the movie with the first dropping in April.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 23 May 2022
• The smell of bat droppings, or guano, wafts up from the cave when the breeze is low.
  — Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024
• Some of that footage, which is jaw dropping, is in the series.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• This isn't the first time the papers have filled with tales of rat droppings in CPS.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 10 Apr. 2018
• The nine on the season are about half the dropping average and the second fewest through the date.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• Hundreds of mouse droppings, trailing across the hood of the stove.
  — NBC News, 3 Oct. 2019
• Wright blamed the bird droppings for killing her flowers and grass.
  — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Twigs, leaves and squirrel droppings can clog up the drains.
  — courant.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• But the flashy show is but a prelude for the hammer dropping later in the day.
  — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2024
• What was the strategy behind that video and for the buildup to the new record dropping on May 13?
  — Charlie Amter, Variety, 12 May 2022
• With Owusu-Koramoah dropping, Berry looked at what was in front of him and played the game to get his guy.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 4 May 2021
• Rat droppings look a little wider and longer — about half an inch in length.
  — Beth Kaufman, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2019
• There’s a lot of ground to cover—most of it covered in bird droppings.
  — Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
• There was also a goat that roamed from room to room, leaving droppings on the floor.
  — Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• The track of a push broom on the floor has shaped a tiny dune of shattered glass mottled with flakes of lead paint and bird droppings.
  — Stuart Dybek, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
• But the dropping of older leaves is still no cause for concern.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 27 Jan. 2021
• The forest floor is alive with mushrooms, lichens, moss and fox droppings.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Now, there's a robot that will pick up dog droppings off your lawn.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2020
• The fun and the thrill of the chase keep the pages moving and gets you past Cline's tiresome name-dropping of every pop culture item of the 1980s.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2018
• The inspector found 60 to 80 droppings in the ice machine area.
  — Kyle Arnold, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 May 2018
• Name-dropping is meant to do the work of character creation.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• In the back of the kitchen, four rodent droppings were on a shelf and another five were under a shelf.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• While there were some droppings around, there were people in the water.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
• Thursday's high should reach about 33 degrees with the low dropping to about 5.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 13 Feb. 2020
• Few things are as good for an island as bird droppings.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 11 July 2018
• This reduces the risk of spreading bird droppings around your house.
  — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2025
• With popularity dropping, the Camerons approached the council last week for short- and long-term assistance.
  — Brendan Nordstrom, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2025
• The dropping of charges Wednesday was not the first legal victory Brad Bondi has scored during the Trump administration.
  — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2025