droops

present tense third-person singular of droop

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of droops The cream should hold a soft, semi-sturdy peak that gently droops at the tip without collapsing entirely. Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for droops
Verb
  • Crisp air hangs heavy with the promise of rain.
    Christina Fang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Closer to the front door, a simple gallery wall hangs above a wooden bench.
    Amanda Sims, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Along with being functional, these bowls offer a modern look with an embossed texture surrounding the exterior and gradient color scheme that fades from the smallest bowl to the largest.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But once the novelty fades, no one will care how a video was made.
    Victor Riparbelli, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For now, the burden largely falls on defendants — many still deep in addiction, many who are homeless — to find and secure treatment on their own.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • As another once-promising season falls apart, this time stamped out in stunningly emphatic fashion, a conversation that had only begun to percolate is now steaming hot.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The rising intolerance that results erodes social cohesion, undermines support for democratic norms and weakens trust in institutions.
    Andrew Rojecki, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Blocking them causes disruption to the cells’ energy-generating mitochondria and leads to oxidative stress, which further weakens cancer.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The story goes that at the homecoming pep rally in 1995, then-student body president Michael Torregrossa was pushed into the pond by other student government members.
    Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • These spots are all gone, but now, due in part to the rise of #BookTok, where genre fiction often goes viral, booksellers are once again getting more targeted in their approach.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The state alleged that Amazon doesn’t go far enough to find reasonable accommodations for employees upon request and fails to consider whether a different accommodation or work location would be a match for an employee who is pregnant or has a disability.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 27 Oct. 2025
  • If Washington fails to even mildly improve relations with Brazil, India, and South Africa, Beijing and Moscow will toast their good luck.
    Richard Fontaine, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Droops.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droops. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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