How To Use Drop In A Sentence

We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi
I usually sqirt a drop or two on the front and back of my boots, and a few drops on a wick around the stand. i never used the buck pee though. i have used a couple of tarsal glands from a buck that my friend killed. had small buck circle the tree i hung it from a couple times. When to use What deer pee?
For verrucae and warts place a drop of neat Tea Tree Essential Oil in the centre and cover with a plaster once a day, this procedure can take a couple of weeks before you will see the results.

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Net interest income dropped to $256.4 million, primarily due to the low market-interest rates that resulted in lower yields on mortgage-related interest-earning assets as customers refinanced to lower mortgage rates and new loans and asset purchases were at the current low market interest rates. Hudson City Bancorp Swings to Loss
By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then. "I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
The drop-in module, which adds to the stiffness and torsional rigidity of the whole vehicle, ties the car together from the seats rearward and from b-pillar to b-pillar.
Ten years ago he was a Dundee University drop out whose career encompassed labouring, recruitment consultancy and a rock band.
Fuss' photograms have reproduced water droplets, birds in flight, moving light and even a trail of snakes moving across light-sensitive paper, dusted with talcum powder.
The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
And try to minimize contact, she suggests. Write memos instead of dropping into his office.
After being dropped in a club to give people a taste of what to expect, it has been spun on decks uncontrollably ever since.
Instead, go to the departure area of the airport and pick up a taxi that has just dropped somebody. Times, Sunday Times
But on the gender front, the sex ratio among children up to age 6 dropped to 914 girls for each 1,000 boys from 927 a decade ago, showing that female foeticide continues to be a widespread practice because of a traditional preference in some communities for boys. India Passes 1.2 Billion Mark
The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
It was strange, to buy a bottle of great wine for my guests and know I wouldn't drink a drop.
If you have bacterial conjunctivitis, you might need to use antibiotic eye drops.
The drop was largely due to changes in conversion rates.
That I did not drop it into a cageful of terrier-pups was wholly due to the native vigour with which _Striatus_ hung on. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04
We've seen these kind of games played before in conference, where conferees drop provisions which they should not drop when they're both in the House and the Senate bills.
A man rushed past and jogged her elbow, making her drop the bag.
The tips on rounding hours to the next quarter-hour or tenth-hour and dropping your own VBA procedure into a formula were most ingenious.
Intel, the world's largest maker of computer chips, posted a 76 % drop in profits for the second quarter.
If we don't save water, the last drop of water will be a tear-drop of us.
Using hydroponics, inorganic fertiliser, electric light and genetic modification we could in theory feed the entire world from a multi-storey farm the size of Wales.
Apart from a pale yellow primula, snowdrops are the only flowers in the front garden but despite this there is plenty of other interest.
Put a drop of peppermint oil on a flannel or tea towel. The Sun
We were still playing at war — dropping leaflets instead of bombs.
Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who dropped out after failing to attract enough money or support.
Just as people shouldn't drop litter, they shouldn't deface the city with graffiti, and ways need to be found of persuading them to stop doing it.
And about 50 meters into the canyon at this narrow section, I encountered a place where I was standing on top of a chalkstone with about a ten-foot elevation drop. CNN Transcript May 8, 2003
The best way to reduce the risk of hydroplaning is to simply slow down when roads are wet. Video: How to reduce the risk of hydroplaning
A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater.
He welcomed the drop that had occurred in UK birth rates.
PERRY: There's no question about it, parents who are comfortable with a child who gets a C or D, parents who are comfortable dropping their child off at a school that they no is ragged -- they have watched that school undereducate a generation or two -- parents who are willing to go down and fuss and fight when their child doesn't play on the basketball team, but are unwilling to go down and fight the same way when that child is not being served in -- in the classroom. CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009
I have dropped 10000 dollars so far.
Other new ingredients were Agretti, corky-fruited water dropwort, bilwa or Belfruit, and squash blossoms. Weekend Herb Blogging Year In Review: Weeks 21-30, and a Recipe
Also well known is hydrophobia, literally ‘fear of water ‘, as a name for rabies, which sometimes appears to cause such a sensation in sufferers because it makes the throat swell and so it becomes difficult for the victim to swallow.’
A classic example of cleaning fan losses can be found at headlands where combine speeds suddenly drop.
A guard had dropped another large execution device they were carrying up the stairs to the raised wooden platform.
Wearing baggies and doing big drops (as an example) doesn't limit your riding.
Drop dead gorgeous pictures, a text that's zippy and slick, fun voices, and lots of words like "crick", "crack", and "creak". Archive 2006-04-01
Consequently, they had to drop concrete piles 8 metres into the soil to provide a foundation.
The U.S. Army Air Force would assist in this latter mission by airdropping his books over occupied France.
Additional options include erecting a sizable ornamental canopy or baldachin over the tabernacle, or setting the tabernacle within the apsidal wall or against the backdrop of a decorated reredos. Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: "Concerning the Central Placement and Noble Design of Tabernacles..."
Should I drop a hint to Matt?
It was the sound of milk bottles being dropped into crates and loaded on to lorries.
The dark foliage makes a bold backdrop throughout summer and turns bright red in autumn. Times, Sunday Times
The Year 9 mentors are trained by children's charity Childline and run lunchtime support clubs as well as a drop-in centre where younger students can call in for advice or help.
The circulating nurse instills tetracaine hydrochloride drops to decrease the burning sensation of the diluted povidone-iodine solution.
Liz dropped her defences and began to relax.
Spending has been jump-started by a drop in interest rates to 30-year lows as well as by the best monsoon since 1988.
A neighbour reported hearing a thud that sounded like a garbage bag being dropped.
She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit. The Ambassadors
she used an eye dropper to administer medication to the eyes
The fruit of the fig is about as big as a rounceval pea, or very small gooseberry; and each of them, upon breaking off the stalk very close, produces one drop of a milky liquor, resembling the juice of our figs, of which the tree is indeed a species. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
Then she went to the window and threw it open, looking down with despair at the six-storey drop to the courtyard below. TREASON KEEP
Drop it in my face, because I am not obligated to talk to you so don't expect me to start a conversation with you fucking dumbass.
Steven added four penalties and Warren potted a drop-goal in a game which was in the balance right to the final whistle.
And to relieve insomnia, try putting a drop of basil, chamomile, clary sage or lavender onto your pillow at night.
But dropsy was still poorly understood until Bright, who put it all together with diseased kidneys and albuminuria and distinguished dropsies of renal origin from other etiologies.
The concert footage, captured in color, is bright and brassy, and even with all the fancy lighting and video backdrops, the transfer never resorts to flaring or bleeding.
Her hands shake constantly and she keeps dropping things.
Marine pilots were advised to drop warning messages on the towns or villages concerned, allowing civilians time to get away. Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Teams often protect the yellow jersey like a queen bee, but he briefly dropped back on his own for a seat adjustment from a Saxo Bank mechanic before catching up. Cavendish ices Tour de France stage victory; Cancellara leads
Water drops are usually ellipsoidal in shape and are less able than a sphere to concentrate light. Apparently, rain cannot cause a forest fire « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
In some cases, light is reflected twice by each rain drop, forming a larger, fainter secondary rainbow outside the primary rainbow.
After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind. American Notes for General Circulation
She agreed cheerfully, turning her face up towards the rain, letting the heavy droplets splatter against her drenched face and hair.
Mothers dropped off their young sons for the first term with a perfunctory peck on the cheek. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, they are trying to demonstrate that potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables can be grown in only water-a process known as hydroponic growth. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The ridge is a lone ridge, right on the divide, and it drops directly to the desert floor.
•If you've been following the fate of Men in Trees (ABC, 10 ET/PT), it won't surprise you to learn this now-canceled series — always an ABC afterthought — is being dropped into the network's summer schedule to complete its run. Critic's Corner Wednesday
Don't drop the "g" in "dancing" and "walking".
I must say this is the first vacation I have never wanted to come back from, Hawai'i is drop dead gorgeous and I have been someplaces. Life on Uncle Merlin's Island
They get much of their food by chasing gulls and making them drop what they have in their beak, and one might see them doing this. Times, Sunday Times
His hands dropped to her waist, and he nuzzled her neck with his lips. At Hidden Falls
Cops said there was insufficient evidence and the case was dropped in February. The Sun
If relativity is all that incomprehensible why wasn't the matter dropped?
I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians. As I Please
It is available in liquid drops, oral liquid (by mouth), chewable tablets, and rectal suppositories.
This has created a crisis in the armed forces with high desertion rates, poor morale and a sharp drop in military recruitment.
The alternative for me is to say that each time the market drops and throws up some of these bargain basement ideas, I'll deploy some capital as long as I have some capital left.
The fruit has begun to drop down.
She wiped off any lingering raindrops on her face, toweling her hair and dress lightly, and placing her handbag next to her coat on the floor.
When canals dropped the water table below the surface, and the sawgrass was cleared, the peat dried, shrank and blew away, or burnt like a cigar, smoldering for months and years, filling the sky with smoke.
Some women will wean off gradually by dropping feeds and reducing feed times over a period of weeks. Times, Sunday Times
He swallowed it without chewing, just dropping it into his mouth and never seeing it again.
Below are the results for each food dropped on floor surfaces containing 17million bacteria. The Sun
Even as he watched, a droplet of water dripped heavily down from a stalactite far overhead, landing in the pond with fat, lazy ripples.
There at night the temperature can drop to below freezing. Times, Sunday Times
Feeling his hand tired, he dropped the book he held, leant his head on a teapoy, and fell asleep. Hung Lou Meng
Dropping the towel he tugged on a pair of baggy, black jeans with lots of zippers and safety pins on them.
While the introduction of EU compensatory payments will offset the price drop, a decline in calf prices combined with cost increases will result in continuing pressure on margins in dairy farming.
They expected gasoline stockpiles to drop 1.7 million barrels and distillate inventories to fall 300,000 barrels. Oil Falls, Awaits Obama
Spread 2 separate diseases are these dropping destroying banana and plant plantain crops in Africa.
I dropped a tear in the ocean, and when i find it thats the day i will stop loving you.
Zilkha did however produce a graceful match of polka dots and floral patterns in drop-waist dresses which will make for a very wearable ensemble when the sun comes back next spring.
Since dropping to the minimum distance this term she's really found her form. The Sun
Mortars are also employed, but are done so from a truck platform, or if dismounted, are dismounted quickly and only long enough to drop rounds and then remount the truck and exfiltrate.
After taking lead out of the gasoline the compression ratios had to be dropped to 8 and 9 to 1 in order to avoid preignition igniting of the fuel which the lead was in there to prevent. The Volokh Conspiracy » More Good Summer TV:
There was little to choose between the sides in the early stages of the second-half, but Humphreys bagged a snap drop-goal to edge the visitors back in front.
Heath's eyes softened and he dropped his hands to his lap, shrugging his shoulders.
And you are right, since salaries and general common people welfare dropped under retirement pension level (while profits and PIB soared during the 30 past year and more) it is the pensions that should be lovered, that makes sense ... Betanews
The fourth side of the clearing was sheer cliff drop, attended by a barrier of split rails.
He dropped down beside Patrick and started eating some of the dry sugar-coated goodies.
The school had also come to an arrangement with a local pub for parents to use its car park when dropping or collecting their youngsters.
It was long after he established himself as such that he eventually decided, for his own reasons, to drop the ‘Montgomery’ from his name.
The more you dropped, the more you were paid in "bonuses". Top Dems blame insurance industry as health care roadblock
At 19, she dropped out of college and spent five months on the arduous trek. Times, Sunday Times
A concurrent effect to this drop in violent crime occurs in the form of an increase in some levels of property crimes, including larceny and auto theft.
In contrast, conventional hydropower technologies often rely on the construction of tall dams that flood the area behind them.
Cassie whirled about, dropped the stickweed, and came running, laughing. The Dollmaker
Case said the rocks are in glass cases, and are pock-marked black tektite; one is tear-dropped shaped and about 3.5 inches long by 1.25 inches wide, and a half an inch thick. Searching for Moon Rocks Here on Earth | Universe Today
The amount of money protected if your bank or building society collapses drops sharply. Times, Sunday Times
Woods birdied the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th but dropped a shot on the 9th to reach the turn in 33, three under par. KJ Choi seizes lead to eclipse Tiger Woods' fine start in California
Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate. Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
The path, when we get down again into the tree-fern region, is inches deep in mud and water, and several places where we have a drop of five feet or so over lumps of rock are worse work going down than we found them going up, especially when we have to drop down on to amomum stems. Travels in West Africa
The conical upper section of the mountain is reached and the well-defined, rocky path zig-zags to the short summit ridge with its steep drop into the ben's north-east corrie.
If your horse bites, put a drop noseband around his mouth.
We learn that the cops are in cahoots with the drug dealer, but this is an incidental plot device that's entirely dropped once Philippa and Filippo are on the lam.
I stayed there for three days, until the snow began to melt, dripping in stealthy drops from my little roof.
But radiation levels at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant dropped on Friday, further buoying the Nikko. Asia Markets Higher; Tokyo Up 2.5%
Imagine trying to count the raindrops on your car's windshield after a light rain.
A recent heart attack, bypass or valve surgery will result in a drop in insurability and an increase of 25% to 100% or more in premiums over standard, or average, risk policies. Getting Life Insurance
I dropped the bottle into the sea and watched it bob up to the surface a moment later.
As the song reaches a crescendo, she drops to her knees, lost in the raw emotion of her thoughts. Times, Sunday Times
Another potential limitation of this study was the dropout rate, with 30% of subjects failing to complete all three treatment arms.
Three weeks later, and one week before the union election, the President ‘dropped a bombshell,’ as the Miami New Times put it.
The porcupine will gnaw at the base of the maize stalk and drop it, and in doing so is able to get to the maize cob.
The gossips say the group is being hit by declining advertising revenue and a drop in market share in its important US college market which could result in further profit downgrades once figures are issued.
An intriguing first two sentences, there, that drop bathetically into Amis-père-like reactionary noodling. Archive 2010-03-01
Missy's fans and friends have been dropping their jaws at her newest invention: her retooled curvy figure.
I wasn't prepared to let the matter drop .
Many of the bays and inlets are simply beautiful and consist of rock or sand, sometimes dropping away dramatically into 50 feet of water, at other times sloping gently in to shallows of just a few feet.
The on-site test results indicate that energy meter's neutral point virtual connection has a great effect on PT secondary voltage drop.
The primary binding pattern between caffeic acid and BSA included electrostatic and hydrophobic interaction, and the latter was identified to be the main force under physiological condition.
What they are probably thinking is that the imaginary line mentioned above from the earth to the sun sweeps out a full circle in one year; this is called a sidereal year: the time it takes for the sun to appear in the same place against the backdrop of the fixed stars. A Great Leap…Forward?
This is a very knotty question; it is like asking how far a dropsical man may be punctured without his dying under the operation; this depends on the prudence of the physician. A Philosophical Dictionary
The fuel gages dropped swiftly.
She was halted with a sensation somewhat akin to being slammed into a brick wall, her sword dropping from her nerveless fingers as the impact struck her.
It is against this backdrop of an already emerging consensus that we must evaluate the famous anecdote retailed by Jefferson about the dinner bargain that set the capital on the Potomac.
As the various ingredients begin to solidify, their surface properties change, weakening the emulsion so that the fat droplets can coalesce still further during the freezing phase.
The last time I'd been in Hoch, ironically enough, we had dropped acid and gone to a showing of Fantasia.
This territory has lush green hills, azure blue skies and spectacular beaches where the loudest noise you will hear is the sound of a coconut dropping to soft white sands.
In the study, he pulled the drop cloths off the crates holding his books-his and his great-aunt 's and his father's and his mother's. NEW YORK DEAD
The terraced waterfalls are picturesque against the backdrop of high, green mountains.
The eavesdropping charges arose from his use of keylogging software to spy on victims' net activities in 2000.
You drop in at a friend's place one evening unannounced.
The International Olympic Committee voted in 2005 to drop baseball and softball from the Summer Games after this year's Beijing Games. Baseball gets strong pitch, hopes to remain in Olympics
He says he has dropped out, and won't attend college any more.
One after another, fat teardrops started to roll down his face.
It is a love story set against a backdrop of rural Irish life.
After seeking advice from Norman, his playing partner, Garcia took a drop, moving away from the sign.
Given the state of the telecoms equipment market, it's no surprise to hear that this area was hit by a drop-off in spending and customer destocking.
The way he drops off his chair on to one knee as he is talking does not suggest relaxation. Times, Sunday Times
John Sanders recalls cancelling this out from under you when sales dropped to 199,000. John Wagner talks about Battle Picture Weekly
At the top of your pull, quickly drop under and catch the bar with your arms extended overhead.
If you took a two-liter soda bottle of lunar dirt, there would probably be a medicine dropperful of water in it, said University of Maryland astronomer Jessica Sunshine, one of the scientists who discovered the water. Obama UN Climate Change Speech (Text)
Alicia returned her attentions to the mirror and slipped her favourite pearl drop earrings into her lobes.
I'm thinking of dropping an egg on that bad boy and a little hollandaise for brekky!! An asparagus sandwich and a new attitude | Homesick Texan
The mucous film covering his eyes was an infection that was treated successfully with antibiotic drops.
The debate was filmed by French television and Mr Cox answered questions from the news crew, with the audience in the auditorium as a back-drop.
Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
Research using sonograms (device for visualizing sound), hydrophones, and other acoustical devices have shown that that these whales produce two sounds termed A or B calls.
Then, once they became what he terms pathological gamers, their grades were more likely to drop, and their relationships with their parents deteriorated. NYT > Home Page
Temperatures are expected to drop even lower this evening as a north-eastern wind blows over the UK.
The last drop makes the cup run over.
When Manly-Warringah dropped out of the chase, St George stepped up the pressure and have never really let off.
Ben had heard that significant cry of alarm, and almost simultaneously the "plash" made by the little Portuguese as her body dropped down upon the water. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
When she raised it, his white nightrobe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in the neck had sent forth drops. Dracula
Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite. Memory Wall
The big cogwheel rotated exactly once every Roman mile, and at this point a small stone - a calculus - dropped into a box.
With the ink jet recording head, the relationship between the amount and the speed of ejected ink droplets can be optimized in accordance with the size of areas of the electro-thermal transducers.
It marred an otherwise fine performance from the centreback, who had been dropped the previous week. The Sun
Bichette ran 30 yards at full speed, bobbled the ball and dropped it, allowing the go-ahead run to score.
One patient dropped out due to intercurrent illness, one patient was lost to follow-up, and one patient left the study due to personal reasons.
His ex-wife drops his kids off for the weekend just before a bizarro lightning storm shorts out almost all the electric equipment in the area.
In addition, a proposal to protect 1.2 million acres of owl habitat would be dropped.
When she puts the pen down, a little ink drops off the nib, spreads into a blue mark on the paper and makes the word Mitzi invisible. NPR Topics: News
He turned and I started showing off — and the skateboard started to hydroplane and spin out. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Thomas Jane Does ‘Men’s Fitness’ Magazine
If a drop of the same ink is mixed with a drop of fresh blood, the carbon precipitates at once in the form of rather coarse black particles, assembling in small irregular clusters.
Jahdo urged the horses into this sliver of open ground and dropped their halter ropes to make them star; d. `Meer? A TIME OF WAR
The south-east Asian nation moved this week to secure regional approval for the first major hydropower plant on its stretch of the river in the face of protests from international conservation groups.
Witnesses say that there was an explosion and then the plane dropped like a stone to earth.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean. Isaac Newton
They are scented with different essences, and may be shaped as fruits or flowers, or simply made in little drop shapes.
The manager has no qualms about dropping players who do not perform well.
Hereupon all folk stared in hugeous wonderment to behold these two champions drop their swords and leap to clasp and hug each other in mighty arms, to pat each other's mailed shoulders and grasp each other's mailed hands. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
I got up and went to the shower; I dropped my silk gown which fell to the floor stroking my skin softly as it fell.
The bending of sunlight by the raindrops is the key to forming the colorful rainbows.
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
He seems relaxed and happy for the first time in years, hasn't touched a drop of booze since his time in The Priory more than two years ago, and his life is definitely back on track.
Little cookie unfolds her colorful umbrella hurriedly in order to block the raindrop.
Last week, the Australian navy took family members of the lost crew members out to the wreck site, where they held a ceremony and dropped wreaths into the water.
It will also lose a $900,000 provincial grant that buffered the effect of dropping enrolment on a new provincial funding formula.
There, the mason had to lie on his stomach in a narrow groove, working his tools horizontally, chips and limestone dust dropping in front of his face.

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