drop away
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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"I got it wrong. I felt that was where we were," he told MPs, adding that "things drop away" over Christmas and New Year, but work was now under way "in earnest".
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Moreover, emotional well-being tends to increase in old age, as personal ambitions drop away and we allow ourselves the time to just be.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2023
Whatever caused Nivola to hesitate or overthink before, Russell has seen that drop away in favor of “enthusiastic inventiveness,” he wrote in an email.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
But in other, key sequences, she lets the flourishes drop away.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2021
You’re supposed to wait for leeches to fill with blood and drop away.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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