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• When I went out to water my garden, the soil was bone dry. No wonder plants were drooping.From the entry bone dry
• Nyctitropic movements of plants usually consist in a folding or drooping of the leaves, the advantage being in lessening the radiation of heat.From the entry nyctitropic
• Quip's wide shoulders drooped—he had a crash-hot body from going to the gym every day.2020, Claire McNab, The Quokka Question. From the entry crash-hot
• “Yuck Fou,” I slurred, my eyelids drooping as the room began to spin.2018, Ian Mark, Love from Amanda to Zoey, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry yuck fou
• Her pinned-up hairdo was drooping and she shed two bobby pins on the floor.2014, Janet Cantrell, chapter 7, in Fat Cat at Large, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry bobby pin
• The engineer was listening now, his bullneck calm, his shoulders drooping.2014, David Grossman, The Zigzag Kid. From the entry bullneck
• The face of the sky was mustachioed by a long, thin cloud which drooped at the ends.2013, Kim Hunter, Scabbard's Song: The Red Pavilions, →ISBN. From the entry mustachio
• The kind of time that droops over your knuckles and impedes your fingers' function.2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies. From the entry boresome
• From drooping at half-mast, his personal pennant was faffling away in a whole new wind.2007, Simon Leigh, Wild Women. From the entry faffle
• I wait for them to droop as in a natural cycle.2000, Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love, page 106. From the entry unalive
• She looked up to see the bagel, drooping slightly, the cheese, loosening.2000, John Leben, Speed Tile, page 94. From the entry schlup
• The American built XB-70 plane also had such a droop snoot for this same reason.1970, William Zuk, Roger H. Clark, Kinetic architecture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, page 24. From the entry droop snoot
• On their first flight, the pilots also made sure about the "droop snoot".1962 January 18, E. Colston Shepherd, “New features in the Trident”, in New Scientist, volume 13, number 270, Reed Business Information…. From the entry droop snoot
• When the limbs are affected, there is a limpiness in gait or a drooping of the wings.1930, The Philippine Journal of Plant Industry, page 315. From the entry limpiness
• Mr Bloom went round the corner and passed the drooping nags of the hazard.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5: Lotus Eaters]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 73. From the entry hazard
• Val walked out behind his mother, chin squared, eyelids drooped, doing his level best to despise everybody.1920, John Galsworthy, “Dartie versus Dartie”, in In Chancery (The Forsyte Saga; 2), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part II, page 186. From the entry level best
• Every needle of the drooping pine tassels is weighted with an ice drop.1907 February, Mary C. Dickerson, “The Pageant of Nature”, in Country Life, volume 11, page 554. From the entry ice drop
• Some leather and droop like bat wings, others, as the poet Brenda Hillman writes, are 'hung in hashtags'.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 83. From the entry leather
• The Rose droops in the death-cold blast.2013, Sarah Ash, Songspinners. From the entry frostburned
• Leather water bags, wet and shiny, dangled from the roo bars like a series of sad, drooping eyes.2010, Ralph Alcock, Hidden Identity, page 32. From the entry roo bar
• My head spins like the vagitated gears of a drunken kaleidoscope, and my eyelids droop like the shade.2008, Davis Schneiderman, Dis: (or, The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure), Buffalo, N.Y.: BlazeVOX Books, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry vagitate
• Withered addicts drooped into chronic heroin nods.1988 August 20, Wickie Stamps, “Voluptuous Nudes and Withered Addicts”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 7. From the entry nod
• Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN. From the entry garden
• On-site radar calibration generally removes a major portion of all hardware-oriented errors such as droop, mislevel, non-orthogonality, etc.1970, Chreston Furman Martin, J. R. Vetter, Error Sensitivity Function Catalog, page 16. From the entry mislevel
• In a hollow bowl created by the drooping branches of the trees, the man goes down on Johnny.1967, Johnny Rechy, Numbers, page 247. From the entry youngman
• With the aid of the marigolds the roses flourished; in the control beds they were sickly and drooping.1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 6, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 79. From the entry sickly
• Her eyelids drooped as though the lashes weighed intolerably; with the tip of her tongue she wettened her very red lips.1951, Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry wetten
• The Barometz is more stiff and upright where the Scheidei droops and is more delicate and lighter green.1949, The Begonian: […], Long Beach, Calif.: American Begonia Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 265, column 2. From the entry barometz
• Her slender arm patted his drooping shoulder.1937, Astounding Stories: Lost in the Dimensions, page 58. From the entry ultradimensional
• The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.2010, Michael D. Langan, When I Was a Boy, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry skeeter
• So when we read that some professor finds 98 per cent of us drooping with sorrow, I think we may safely charge him with Barnumizing.1935 August 23, Mrs. Walter Ferguson, “Being Unhappy”, in The Pittsburgh Press. From the entry barnumize
• Her still small smile teased him and her grey eyes looked at him friendlily from under the slight droop of her lids.1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue. From the entry friendlily
• The steamer itself had vanished, but the great scroll of smoke still hung in the air and drooped like a flag mournfully in valediction.1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 10, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard…. From the entry mournfully
• More greens drooped from a trug on the bench, which explained why Bal had been coming from this direction and why she was in a twitsome mood.2003, Sally Odgers, Under the Waterfall. From the entry twitsome
• Breasts are rarely pert, self-sustaining, in these pictures; they droop and sag, veinously overabundant, from bodies marked by the dimples and creases and stretchmarks of time.1996, Anne Glyn-Jones, Holding Up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline. From the entry veinously

Meaning of droop

1. verb To hang downward; to sag.
2. verb To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
3. verb To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.

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Questions about droop in a sentence

How do you use droop in a sentence?

Droop is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “He walked with a discouraged droop.”

What is a short sentence with droop?

“Share prices are drooping.”

What does droop mean?

Droop means to hang downward; to sag.