VERB
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withdraw from established society, especially because of disillusion with conventional values
She hasn't heard from her brother in years--he dropped out after moving to California -
leave school or an educational program prematurely
Many students drop out because they are not prepared for our challenging program -
give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
In the second round, the challenger gave up
How To Use drop out In A Sentence
- Ten years ago he was a Dundee University drop out whose career encompassed labouring, recruitment consultancy and a rock band.
- In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
- How might we devise a system that offers students a second chance but that doesn't obfuscate reality or entice students to drop out?
- Research suggests that children whose parents split up are more likely to drop out of high school.
- We haven't been at our best and to drop out of the play-offs at this late stage of the season is a bitter pill to swallow.
- I'm not the kind of guy who keeps his ear to the railroad tracks of publishing, but the buzz for The Passage by Justin Cronin seemed to drop out of the sky in an instant. Wish List Wednesday #54: The Passage
- Three clubs have already gone and four more will drop out over the next two season.
- In some schools, according to the Times, poorly performing students are encouraged to drop out.
- Half drop out because they fail a test that judges how well they interpret the images on scanner screens. Times, Sunday Times
- It may well be that one major reason why high-school girls drop out of school around the world is that they have trouble managing menstruation, and probably one reason nobody has cottoned on to this is that people who run aid organisations and write about it have never menstruated. Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide