drop
noun
a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
am dropping
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present progressiveof drop (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It's like juggling with knives, but I really am dropping a lot of them.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2021
“I have provided health insurance for 30 years and am dropping it in 60 days,” wrote J of New York.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2014
And into this third jar, which now absorbs my close attention and runaway invention, I am dropping those hot, cinnamon-flavored bombs known as Atomic Fireballs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2010
You're awful pretty," he gasps at last, "and I am dropping no end of blood off my arm on your bodice.
From When the Birds Begin to Sing by Harold Piffard
As the English mail leaves this benighted place to-morrow at mid-day, I am dropping you a few lines, though I feel in anything but a scribbling humour.
From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by P. T. Ross
