drop-bys
- plural of drop-by.
Example Sentences
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A small, no-reservations-required lounge area is designed for pop-ins and drop-bys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
As of this writing, it’s logged 194 house finch visits, 83 California towhee drop-bys, 5 squirrel sorties and a lone pine siskin pop in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
The candidate has favored meet-and-greets and sporting-event drop-bys that were not widely advertised ahead of time over the kinds of rallies he is holding in the campaign’s final days.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
The Biden team’s courtship, meanwhile, is complicated by the covid-19 pandemic, as casual drop-bys in senators’ offices are replaced by far less intimate Zoom introductions and virtual roundtables.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2020
Visitors--you get more office drop-bys when you have a weird walking desk than when you have doughnuts--sweetly avert their eyes as the weight question comes up.
From Time Magazine Archive
