Example sentences for: dropped

How can you use “dropped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Monday, when the first circuit breakers were imposed, the market had dropped only 5 percent.

  • However, when the unamplified poly(A) +RNA arrays performed weeks apart from different print batches were compared, the average correlation coefficient dropped to 0.89 ± 0.01, indicating that experimental variations due to differences in microarray printing, poly(A) +RNA isolation, and RNA labelling and hybridization contribute a small but detectable change in results.

  • USA Today leads with the news that juvenile violent crime has dropped more than 9 percent in the past year, the Los Angeles Times with the word that the U.S. is likely to OK nuclear power deals between U.S. firms and China, and the Washington Post with the news that President Clinton is about to propose civilian review boards to oversee the IRS.

  • The investigation of Michael Kennedy's alleged affair with his kids' teen-age baby sitter is being dropped because the baby sitter won't cooperate.

  • For 20 years the median wage has dropped, while the two parties have hauled in hundreds of millions from business groups.


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