Example sentences for: dropping

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

  • Is it just because I am English that I resent the dropping of a small preposition?

  • In fact, the very raising of these privileges in court--and dropping them when the judge says no--is one of the counts in Starr's this-is-not-an-indictment of the president.

  • As predicted in yesterday's Chatterbox, the relatively good news contained in the overall admissions figures for the entire 8-campus University of California system--which showed black and Hispanic admissions dropping by only 17 and 7 percent, respectively, in the wake of Prop. 209's rollback of race preferences--was either ignored or buried by the press.

  • The NYT lead reports that the FTC had been considering dropping the threshold for "Made in USA" from the current interpretation of 98 percent of an item's value down to as low as 75 percent.

  • But there are also significant improvements in the developed world, with infant deaths dropping in Europe over the same 20-year period from 24 per 1000 live births to just 10.


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