DROP in a Sentence

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392 example sentences for DROP, such as:

1. We got the drop on the criminal.
2. Be careful not to drop that plate.
3. Not a drop of alcohol passed my lips.
4. The last drop makes the cup run over.
5. It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

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 Meanings and Examples of DROP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
drop
 n.  a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
 v.  fall or descend to a lower place or level
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As they entered it the breeze fell and a warm stillness seemed to drop from the branches with the dropping needles.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Half-way down there was a sudden drop, then a rise, and after that another long delirious descent.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  She was shining black, pure African, devoted to her last drop of blood to the O'Haras, Ellen's mainstay, the despair of her three daughters, the terror of the other house servants.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  They seemed never too busy to drop work for a fish fry, a hunt or a horse race, and scarcely a week went by without its barbecue or ball.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  When she saw his eyes falter and drop before the long, troubled gaze of his father, a faint worry and bewilderment rose in her as to what was hidden in Ashley's heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  But Scarlett saw him drop his eyes before the lazy, penetrating look Rhett gave him, and she was frightened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  He turned his head and gave her one look, a look that made her drop his arm and shrink back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  After all, Tara lay just ahead, and after the next quarter of a mile, the horse could drop in the shafts if he liked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  and to anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  Perhaps in the first five minutes at Bull Run when I saw the first man I killed drop to the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  But that's not a drop in the bucket to what that man has really got.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  The faces she was seeing in the room were not faces; they were masks, excellent masks which would never drop.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  But, perhaps if she were alone with him once more, he might drop that mask of impersonal courtesy he had worn since coming to Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  Handling her needle awkwardly, she jabbed it into her thumb and with a little scream of pain and annoyance that made them all jump, she squeezed it until a bright red drop appeared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  But as for the recently impoverished Atlanta people, they could starve and drop in the streets for all the newly rich Republicans cared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence: (182 in 13 pages)
16  The company has been hard hit by the drop in consumer confidence.
17  The last drop makes the cup run over.
18  The management's preoccupation with costs and profits resulted in a drop in quality and customer service.
19  The drop in shares could develop into a full-blown crisis.
20  The fall in the cost of living is directly relevant to the drop in the prices of many industrial products and agricultural produce.
21  He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.
22  We got the drop on the criminal.
23  Temperatures can drop well below freezing in midwinter.
24  Many people experienced a drop in their cholesterol levels when they consumed oat bran.
25  Most companies have suffered a drop in their profits, even very large companies.
26  Not a drop of alcohol passed my lips.
27  Scientists have observed a drop in ozone levels over the Antarctic.
28  Be careful not to drop that plate.
29  It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
30  Life is merely a drop of nectar on the lotus leaf.