How to Use dropping in a Sentence

dropping

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  • The play was one of the most jaw-dropping of the NFL season.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 23 May 2022
  • The smell of bat droppings, or guano, wafts up from the cave when the breeze is low.
    — Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • But the flashy show is but a prelude for the hammer dropping later in the day.
    — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2024
  • What was the strategy behind that video and for the buildup to the new record dropping on May 13?
    — Charlie Amter, Variety, 12 May 2022
  • With Owusu-Koramoah dropping, Berry looked at what was in front of him and played the game to get his guy.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 4 May 2021
  • 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
  • The show will premiere in two parts, with the first batch of episodes arriving on Aug. 15, and the second dropping on Sept. 12.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
  • Volunteers helped scrape away years of rust and mounds of bird droppings.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Showers are forecast for this evening, with a low dropping to about 41.
    — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • But if all new weapons are crafted, is there a point to more than one copy of a weapon dropping anymore?
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • When stressed, many of these trees will bypass their fall color and go straight to dropping leaves.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The movies will have all the jaw-dropping reveals, not the TV shows, which aren’t supposed to be mandatory.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 May 2021
  • There were 17 droppings on top of the dishwasher and 20 in a corner of dry storage.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024
  • 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
  • Once your cat does its business, the litter is sifted, and the droppings or the clumps get pushed into a box and contained there for a few days.
    — Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Wild birds can spread the virus to farms through direct contact with poultry or livestock or via droppings, saliva or feed.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024

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