Use dropped in a sentence
Sentences ending with dropped
- On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped. [2]
- After sunset the wind had dropped. [2]
- He heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. [2]
- But her lashes were dropped. [9]
- The farther Katuti went in the lamentably incorrect epistle--which she could only decipher with difficulty--which her darling had written to her, the paler grew her face, which she several times covered with her trembling hands, from which the letter dropped. [10]
- Jim said he was green not to take the money; he'd go and look for it now, if he would tell him about where it dropped. [4]
- For an instant the sorrowful face lighted, the square chin trembled, and the hands thrust out towards Lawless, but suddenly dropped. [11]
- I must sweep the hundred and eighty miles between these places as one would sweep a chamber where a precious pearl had been dropped. [6]
- In an instant the gaskets were off and the bunt dropped. [5]
- But suddenly a storm came on, chromatic scales and diminished sevenths were heard in the orchestra, everyone ran off, again dragging one of their number away, and the curtain dropped. [2]
Short sentences using dropped
- It dropped upon the man. [11]
- The Orderly dropped the knife. [11]
- Las' one dropped something. [5]
- He dropped his own. [11]
- And he dropped his cigar. [9]
- The Mistress dropped her teaspoon. [6]
- The subject was dropped. [5]
- Perhaps Krool had dropped it. [11]
- That cry has been dropped. [7]
- The men dropped back. [11]
Sentences containing dropped two or more times
- As he dropped on his knee beside her, she smiled and raised her hand as if to touch him, but the hand dropped and the head fell forward on his breast. [11]
- Higbie dropped his oars to hurrah--I dropped mine to help--the sea gave the boat a twist, and over she went! [5]
- I seized the bell-rope; dropped it, ashamed; seized it again; dropped it once more; clutched it tremblingly one again, and pulled it so feebly that I could hardly hear the stroke myself. [5]
More example sentences with the word dropped in them
- I do hope you have not dropped the classics and gone in for the modern notion of being real and practical. [4]
- After all these years have you dropped from the weight of a blow? [9]
- He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me. [5]
- Nadel thought he would take hold of it at one time, but he dropped it again. [8]
- I believed it would never be cleared up--in this life--so I dropped it out of my mind. [5]
- But many thoughts worth gathering are dropped along these pages. [6]
- She dropped a word or two of grief over the precious time that must be lost, then began at once to issue commands for the march back. [5]
- The thrilling, mysterious word had been dropped into a woman's heart. [4]
- He gave a wondering cry, and almost dropped the lantern. [11]
- We dropped anchor within half a mile of the village. [5]
- Once in line with the Kismet's counter, he eased off the painter rapidly, and now dropped towards the stern of the wreck. [11]
- His recent interview with the Doctor, certain remarks which had been dropped in his hearing, but above all an unaccountable impression upon his spirits, all combined to fill his mind with a foreboding conviction that he was very near some overshadowing danger. [6]
- Inside the house, with the bearskin blind dropped at the window again, and the fire blazing high, Loisette sat with the Governor's reprieve in her hand. [11]
- Withered laurel-wreaths, tied with long ribbons, fluttered over the mantel-piece; one had fallen, dropped over the bald head of Julius Caesar, and rested on the breast. [10]
- But she stood with her lips parted and her hands dropped, staring at my companion. [9]
- He advanced hesitatingly, with head bowed and bare, and dropped upon one knee in front of Tom. [5]
- The adversary explained with enthusiasm, and the other raven dropped everything and came. [5]
- The paddles dropped with agreeable precision, and no boatswain's rattan was needed to keep my fellows to their task. [11]
- Suddenly Byng said with a voice of almost guttural anger: "You dropped that letter on my bedroom floor--that letter, you understand? [11]
- Higgins dropped in with a double-barreled shotgun early in the forenoon. [5]
- There was no wind, apparently no breath of air, yet the leaves of the trees moved, the weather-vanes turned slightly, the animals in the byres roused themselves, and slumbering folk opening their eyes, turned over in their beds, and dropped into a troubled doze again. [11]
- A golden dolphin, which had been suspended from a beam, and on which the eye of every charioteer was fixed, dropped to the ground, a blast on the 'salpinx', or war-trumpet, was sounded, and forty-eight horses flew forth as though thrown forward by one impulsion. [10]
- And the boom, which had been acting uneasily, finally decided to gybe, and swept majestically over, carrying two of the Four in front of it, and all but dropped them into the water. [9]
- I dropped pap's whetstone there too, so as to look like it had been done by accident. [5]
- Late one afternoon, when he dropped in at Mr. Bentley's house, he was informed by Sam that a lady was awaiting Mr. Bentley in the library. [9]
- Mrs. Townley guessed what was really at the bottom of Marion's occasional bitterness, and, piecing together many little things dropped casually by her friend, had come to the conclusion that the happiness of two people was at stake. [11]
- Duvarney and I were thus alone for a moment, and he straightway dropped a hand upon my shoulder. [11]
- At last they were still, her eyelids fell, her hands dropped the crucifix, a slight shiver ran through her limbs, which then relaxed, and she opened her mouth as though to draw a deeper breath. [10]
- As the papers were handed over, a photograph dropped from among them and fell to the floor face upward. [11]
- Therefore the "establishment" went along with her to Rivervale, and the shy, modest little woman, who had dropped down into the country simplicity that she so dearly loved, greatly enjoyed the sensation that her coming produced. [4]
- One of our wealthy citizens said, on hearing that a friend had dropped off from apoplexy, that it made his mouth water to hear of such a case. [6]
- By Jackson, when we got a sight of him, we 'most dropped the trays! [5]
- She dropped the water treatment and everything else, and pinned her faith to Pain-killer. [5]
- The dark shadow was Princess Mary, who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, and dropped it again behind her. [2]
- Among his hearers was Mr. Lowell, who says of it that "every word seemed to have just dropped down to him from the clouds. [6]
- The College Pharmacopoeia was loaded with the most absurd compound mixtures, one of the most complex of which (the same which the Reverend Mr. Harward, "Lecturer at the Royal Chappel in Boston," tried to simplify), was not dropped until the year 1801. [3]
- When the sermon was finished, Judge Thatcher's wife dropped alongside of Mrs. Harper as she moved down the aisle with the crowd and said: "Is my Becky going to sleep all day? [5]
- I thought it was dropped with the Second Empire; but you have started a new dispensation--evidemment, evidemment. [11]
- Pretty soon he was all tired out, and dropped down with his back against the door, and said he would rest a minute and then kill me. [5]
- Suddenly, as Oshondonto was about to speak, Silver Tassel sprang to his feet, seized in his arms a lad of twelve who was standing near, and running to the bank, dropped him into the swift current. [11]
- Oh, don't stare--it was a slip, and no crime; customs of a life-time can't be dropped in a second. [5]
- Tom and Weldon walked ahead, driving the two horses, followed by Cutcheon, his head dropped between his shoulders. [9]
- Comyn dropped his voice still lower. [9]
- Joan dropped her voice a little, and said: "But indeed I would rather spin with my poor mother, for this is not my calling; but I must go and do it, for it is my Lord's will. [5]
- Suddenly he dropped Virginia's hand and ran westward down the hill. [9]
- At eleven, Monsieur Vigo and I were talking "philosophe" over a wonderful breakfast under the awning, as we dropped down between the forest-lined shores of the Ohio. [9]
- Yet have certain verses of the Scripture, or some wise and verily right noble maxim from the writings of the Greeks or Latins dropped on my soul now and again as it were a grain of good seed. [10]
- She dropped her veil, and for a long space was silent while they rapidly threaded the traffic, and at length turned into upper Fifth Avenue, skirting the Park. [9]
- The three dropped upon their knees, and Elizabeth waved without the pages and the gentleman-in-waiting. [11]
- The hammer dropped upon the anvil, and, in a moment, she stood in the doorway of his room. [11]
- As we climbed up and stepped out on this eminence, the Gold Hill lights dropped out of sight at our backs, and the night closed down gloomy and dismal. [5]
- It was not until nine o'clock in the evening that we returned and the bottom suddenly dropped out of things. [9]
- Artemus dropped an unimportant remark or two, and then assumed a look of superhuman earnestness, and made the following astounding speech. [5]
- And in this unhopeful frame of mind he dropped off in sleep. [4]
- The pirate, unconfused, undismayed, with his wide blue asking eyes, came forward and dropped upon his knees. [11]
- Unable to speak, unable to stand, Jane dropped on her knees. [13]
- This I repeated two or three times; and then I dropped it, without saying anything more on the subject for weeks--perhaps a month. [7]
- The horse suddenly turned straight towards her, came over slowly, and, with arched neck, dropped his head on her shoulder. [11]
- People who had tried to get acquainted with him had regretted it and dropped him. [5]
- Then a floating tree suddenly lunged up and struck him, so that he dropped upon a knee; but again he was up, and strained for the pier. [11]
- His eyes dropped towards the spot of ink at the point of the pen the Duke held. [11]
- At the door Tom dropped back a step and accosted a Sunday-dressed comrade: "Say, Billy, got a yaller ticket? [5]
- Macavoy drew back to the wall, dropped the musk-ox skin to the ground, and stripped himself to the waist. [11]
- The hatchet dropped to the ground. [11]
- Arrived, he dropped to the ground, and saluted Dyck. [11]
- Pierre's eyes dropped to the floor. [11]
- The candle dropped to the floor and went out. [11]
- Elizabeth seemed about to speak, then dropped her eyes upon the papers, and glanced hastily at their contents. [11]
- Just dropped in to see how I be, since his son was interested. [9]
- I must beg to move that they be dropped at once, and that we elect a chairman of the meeting and proper officers to assist him, and then we can go on with the business before us understandingly. [5]
- Monsieur's hand dropped to his sword, but in a moment he gave a short, sharp laugh, and opened up the packet. [11]
- She went up to him and with a swift, flexible, youthful movement dropped on her knees. [2]
- Bess shrank closer to him and closer, found his hands, and pressed them tightly over her ears, and dropped her face upon his shoulder, and hid her eyes. [13]
- It dropped suddenly to a tone of persuasiveness and conciliation, and declaring that the bill would be merely vicious where it meant to be virtuous, ended with the question: "Shall we burn the house to roast the pig? [11]
- Now I come to a sentence in the admiral's report which he dropped carelessly from his pen, no doubt, and never gave the matter a second thought. [5]
- His voice dropped to a low intensity. [9]
- Before he had time to speak or to sit up, she had dropped a hand on his shoulder. [11]
- Once upon a time I went to a public meeting where the oratory of a charitable worker so worked on my feelings that, in common with others, I would have dropped something substantial in the hat--if it had come round at that moment. [5]
- These dreams grew, till they were broken by a hand placed on my shoulder, and I saw that one of the passengers, Clovelly, an English novelist, had dropped out from the promenade to talk with me. [11]
- Her head was thrown back against the seat of the chair off which she had slipped, and her pale face was lifeless and horrible to look at, with its half-closed eyes and dropped jaw. [10]
- Round the room three times he went, and then he dropped on a divan. [11]
- I suppose they thought that I would hand it over to them, and dropped reporting while I was giving it, but afterward went away without getting it from me. [7]
- It is as though the leaves from the tree of my life had all dropped on the ground--nay, as though my own guilty hand had torn them from the stem. [10]
- In this way those articles of the Materia Medica which had nothing but loathsomeness to recommend them have been gradually dropped, and are not like to obtain any general favor again with civilized communities. [3]
- It was at this moment the note came from Carnac telling of Barouche's death, and it dropped from her hand to the floor. [11]
- But that one thing she came to know, partly by instinct, partly by something he accidentally dropped, partly from something Jacques once said to him. [11]
- I wonder if they would find the seven-branched golden candlestick brought from Jerusalem by Titus, and said to have been dropped from the Milvian bridge. [6]
- For a while they stood in silence under the spell of the scene's enchantment, and then Victoria seated herself on the rock, and he dropped to a place at her side. [9]
- One after another they all three dropped away, objects of kindly attention to the good people round, leaving little or almost nothing, and nobody to inherit it. [6]
- It seems idle, therefore, for the moralist to indulge in a homily about annual good intentions, and habits that ought to be dropped or acquired, on the first of January. [4]
- But just then there whistled through the larrup of sound a clear voice callin', gentle and coaxin', yet commandin' too; and the spears dropped, and the pounding of horsehoofs ceased, and then the army marched away; far away; iver so far away, into--" "Into Heaven! [11]
- I dropped in there while Marco, the son of Marco, was haggling with a shopkeeper over a quarter of a pound of salt, and asked for change for a twenty-dollar gold piece. [5]
- Tom's first movement there was to reach for a cup of water; but a silk-and-velvet servitor seized it, dropped upon one knee, and offered it to him on a golden salver. [5]
- I was joined there by a stranger, who dropped into conversation with me--a brisk young fellow, who said he was born in a town in the interior of Wisconsin, and had never seen a steamboat until a week before. [5]
- Everybody dropped in there after five o'clock, when the duties of the day were over, with the latest news, and to catch breath before rushing into the program of the evening. [4]
- She thanked him, then suddenly dropped her fingers on his shoulder, and murmured with infinite gentleness and pride: "You will miss me; you ought to! [11]
- Her eyes dropped, then raised frankly to his. [11]
- She knew, by their uncertain yelping up and down the opposite bank, that she had a little respite: she used it, however, to push on until the baying was faint in her ears; and then she dropped, exhausted, upon the ground. [4]
- Wouldn't it assist the work if you dropped out of harness and routine for a day or two and have that sort of revivification which comes of a holiday-forgetfulness of the work-shop? [5]
- But at last the word "circumstance," casually dropped, in the course of conversation, attracted his attention and brought an eager look into his countenance. [5]
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