drooping

How To Use drooping In A Sentence

• Good, bad, or meaningless, there it will be: bunchy with fat or sagging from the bone, fading, freckling, wrinkling, and drooping so long as flesh endures. Beginner’s Grace
• a scarlet "whittle" over all this motley finery; with a "outwork quoyf or ciffer" (New England French for coiffure) with "long wings" at the side, and a silk or tiffany hood on her drooping head, -- Priscilla in this attire were pretty indeed. Sabbath in Puritan New England
• a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids
• The shoots grow off of longer horizontal or drooping branchlets.
• Around the room, eyelids are drooping and the smiles are serene. Times, Sunday Times
• This helps prevent them from drooping or even completely bending over and breaking their stalks.
• But man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master. INSIDE OF A DOG
• The buds are heavy, each so full of fragrant petals that they are drooping under the weight of their ampleness.
• There the wounded monk leaned against the door-post, his red sword drooping to the floor. The Lady of Blossholme
• Meanwhile, aids-de-camp galloped along the lines, announcing the arrival of Grouchy, to reanimate the drooping spirits of the men; for, at last, a doubt of victory was breaking upon the minds of those who never before, in the most adverse hour of fortune, deemed _his_ star could set that led them on to glory. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886