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fall or diminish
The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test -
change from a waking to a sleeping state
he always falls asleep during lectures -
get worse
My grades are slipping - retreat
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remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
drop off the passengers at the hotel
unload the cargo
How To Use drop off In A Sentence
- How many issues for discussion drop off the agenda until the rings have been safely exchanged?
- Occasionally, there may be some excess skin left around the scars, if this does not drop off after a few months it will need to be surgically removed.
- I most let it drop offen the saddle as I jogged along, only I'm a sensitive kind of cupid and the buckle of the bag hit that place on my knee I got sleep-walking last week while Rose of Old Harpeth
- Both pilots took turns calculating the power required to safely drop off the howitzer at Bagram.
- If your front yard slopes downward, it is a good idea to terrace it and/or have a waist-high hedge blocking the initial drop off.
- Surveys conducted earlier this year indicated that many motorists just ‘forgot’ to buckle up after stopping for a short time, in car parks, at waste drop off centres and even at fast food outlets.
- I was restless and unable to drop off, my mind going one hundred miles an hour and flitting from one topic to the next.
- Her house is four blocks from her office, and she can drop off her kids at school before work, because their schools are less than a mile away.
- When, just before dawn, Sikes arrives to drop off some swag, Fagin plies him with a series of hypothetical questions about what he would do to someone who ‘peached’ on him.
- I've been told that the weight won't just drop off - I still have to diet and exercise to lose it, it'll just be easier than before.