How to Use dropping in a Sentence

dropping

noun

• 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
• Some of that footage, which is jaw dropping, is in the series.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The forest floor is alive with mushrooms, lichens, moss and fox droppings.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Volunteers helped scrape away years of rust and mounds of bird droppings.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• In our testing, this chair was even able to withstand bugs, wind, rain, and bird droppings.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2023
• The first round is a best-of-three series, with the semifinals and final dropping to just one game.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2023
• To determine where to place them, start with the mouse droppings and follow their trail.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Drake didn’t release any of them ahead of the album dropping, which helped keep the entire project a surprise from the world.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• The couple work hard to keep their home clean, but still found mice droppings scattered across their bed about a year ago.
  — Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• Birds have moved in, leaving droppings on the food trays and ice bags handed out to keep inmates cool.
  — Mario Koran Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• This year's carbon emissions are set to hit a record high, with no sign of dropping, reports The New York Times.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 15 Nov. 2022
• Part of the appeal of streaming for consumers is the ease of dropping and adding subscriptions.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
• And some cities saw rent increases that were even more jaw dropping.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 19 May 2022
• Dry the tent in a cool, shaded area, ideally away from where there could be bird droppings.
  — Sarah Kester, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2023
• This was before watches or cell phones, so the ball dropping was the primary way to tell time.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Prior to the trailer dropping, there were reports of a fight breaking out on set.
  — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2023
• Look for signs of bed bugs, such as tiny white eggs (bed bug nymphs), black stains, black droppings, brown or red blood stains, and insect skins.
  — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2024
• The November set was the brand's first new release since the debut of Rhode skin in June, and sold out within hours of its dropping.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2022
• In the cons column, the ice maker was a lot noisier than our top pick, both in terms of the motor running and the noise of ice dropping.
  — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2023
• His ultimate is jumping in the air and dropping bombs on people.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Millions of people around the world went to see a movie that glorifies dropping bombs on a country.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• Overnight lows will still be chilly, with Sunday night’s low dropping to 22 degrees.
  — Jacob Factor, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2024
• Cubs will nurse and drink milk (and sows will actually eat the droppings of their newborn cubs), but that’s about it.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Aug. 2023
• Of course, dining with a young child can be a messy endeavor—one that involves many spills and food droppings.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024