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drop away

VERB
  1. get worse
    My grades are slipping

How To Use drop away In A Sentence

  • She stroked my hair and wiped a teardrop away from my cheek.
  • At the edge of town where the houses became scattered and the road started to drop away into a deep valley some one helloed behind him. Windy McPherson's Son
  • The writing house on the central peak, ringed by other peaks with valley around it and the narrow drop away to the sea in front, reminds again of a tongue in a surrounding landscape mouth.
  • By stepping through the reveal of Giacomo Rossi-Stuart's doppelgänger, I noticed that the green light that suddenly illuminates the side of his face flares up a beat or two after he turns to face the hero -- as if it was already on, waiting for a piece of cardboard to drop away, or a lighting "barndoor" to open and expose it. Archive 2007-01-28
  • The cliffs drop away below in a tumble of honeyed sandstone rocks, and below the sun glints off the Pacific Ocean.
  • The majority of students drop away from science.
  • Somehow that conditional clause seemed to drop away from most of the press reports.
  • And so he bade his ships drop away sternwards; and then Earl Eric lay broadside on. The Red True Story Book
  • A couple of miles off Punta Arena the water is said to drop away into 100 fathoms or 600-feet, and double that distance just beyond the Pulmo Shoals.
  • The cliffs drop away below in a tumble of honeyed sandstone rocks, and below the sun glints off the Pacific Ocean.
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