drooped

past tense of droop

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for drooped
Verb
  • For a moment, the silence hung heavy in the room.
    Nathan Furr, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The owner, @kobethesausage, shared a video of Kobe the sausage dog—with his head sticking out, tongue on show, while sitting in a bag hung over a door handle.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But the worries quickly faded as the day began with calm waters.
    Amelia Wu, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But while overall buyer demand has faded, new home construction has helped prop up housing market values in Sun Belt markets, Zillow found.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Federal Reserve had been pressured to keep interest rates low to facilitate wartime financing, resulting in a dollar that sagged badly from its official gold parity.
    Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Childhood illnesses had severely weakened her own heart.
    Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Since then, the legal safeguards against such encounters have weakened.
    Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Jefferson-Wooden went into these championships as a strong favorite to secure the victory.
    Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This year, Tillman went head-to-head with another Severance star Zach Cherry.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cal Fire’s newest proposal for Jackson, dubbed AMEX, targets nearly 500 acres with a patchwork of small clearcuts and is silent on tree sizes to be felled.
    John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Footage from the 1966 Italian documentary Africa Addio, of a herd of elephants being felled by both ground hunters and sharpshooters in helicopters, is distressing to watch.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As the swells grew and the troughs sunk deeper, an ominous feeling settled upon us.
    Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland and other Eastern Bloc counties slaughtered innocents, seized property and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty.
    Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But after spending nearly three decades sitting dormant in Philadelphia, the ship was sold to Okaloosa County in Florida, to be sunk and turned into an artificial reef.
    Danny Freeman, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • George Rose/Getty Images A 2024 study by Stanford researchers found that the San Joaquin Valley, the southern portion of the California Central Valley, has sunk at a record rate over the past 20 years, plunging by nearly an inch per year between 2006 and 2022.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Drooped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drooped. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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