How to Use dropout in a Sentence

dropout

noun

• The program is designed for dropouts who wish to get high school equivalency certificates.
• Before the fame, Wright was a high school dropout who dealt drugs for a living.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• Later, Trump gave Tim Scott, another of the dropouts, the chance to repeat the homage.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
• In the mid-1970s, a high school dropout could earn almost three-quarters of the U.S. median wage.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• Franklin was a high school dropout from the blue-collar town of Dundalk, Maryland.
  — Olive Fellows, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2022
• Bernstein, long of hair and sloppy of dress, a college dropout, is something out of The Front Page.
  — Joshua Benton, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022
• Lily Collins stars as Ellen, a 20-year-old dropout struggling with anorexia.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
• By then, Cecilia, a high school dropout, hadn’t been in a classroom for more than a decade.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
• Iowa State and North Carolina State are the week’s other dropouts.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2023
• Lane was the oddest of the three, though, says Scott: an eighth-grade dropout who’d quit school to read Mein Kampf and trade firearms online all night.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• The Harvard Business School dropout comes in at No. 14, down seven spots from last year.
  — Forbes Press Releases, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• Part of what skews the representation of Ute students in high school is the dropout rate.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 July 2023
• The state has some of the lowest graduation rates and highest dropout rates.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• The lone dropout this week is Florida, edged by a single poll point by Georgia Tech for the 25th spot.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2022
• This is commonly referred to as the S-gene dropout issue.
  — Renée Onque, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• At each stage, judges vote on a dropout, and girlfriends have to bet on her own boyfriend or another’s boyfriend to keep the money and win the prize.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• High school dropout Bill Smith is worth more than $400 million from his startups Shipt and Landing.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• The hermit of Mount Athos and the millionaire recluse in his Caribbean hideaway are both dropouts.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The high dropout rate means that everyone is in search of the one thing that will reach escape velocity.
  — WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
• After all, what does a high school dropout from Des Moines, Iowa, have to do with a college grad from Boston, even if they were born on the same day?
  — Mauro F. Guillén, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• Skinner said children with a lot of suspensions have the highest dropout rates.
  — Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• But stay for the moving account of how a college dropout with a big idea turned his vision into an empire—and changed the country and the world in the process.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2022
• In the study, some cannabis users experienced side effects at times severe enough to cause dropout from the studies.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
• By 1950, attendance was so universal that those who weren’t in school were called dropouts.
  — Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Instead, owners will ship back a seat clamp and a special lug from the rear dropout of the bike, rendering the bike unrideable.
  — Mark Knapp, PCMAG, 14 Apr. 2022
• Grim stuff, but the dropout, Strasberg, sat rapt at every performance.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• An officer is killed at a pawnshop along with the store’s owner, and the team tries to figure out why a recent college dropout is tied to the crime.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
• More of a beauty school dropout than an Australian exchange student?
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 25 Oct. 2022
• El Salvador has sky-high rates of femicides (the killing of a woman due to her gender) and worrying school dropout numbers.
  — Caterina Morbiato, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2023
• Levine, a college dropout, was one of several retail founders who ushered in a boom of stores selling low-cost goods.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024