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Example sentences for: dropped

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

The telescope program, for instance, was considered too challenging and risky for the CIA's Afghan assets; development continued through the summer, but the idea was eventually dropped.
You're right about the police: The criteria for advancement in the department should be changed now that the crime rate has dropped.
French prosecutors dropped their investigation of the crash that killed Princess Diana.
As stringency increased, 40-83% of proteins were rejected, and the relative nematode branch length (to the arthropod and vertebrate branches) dropped from 16% to 0%.
Its share dropped from 29.