Example Sentences

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For more than a year, the wings of high-flying People Express had been drooping under the heat of intense competition.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the topmost tower of the castle the royal standard, which had been drooping against the flagstaff, filled out and waved freely in the breeze.

From The Sleeping Beauty by Rackham, Arthur

As the speaker's voice ceased, little Susannah Hoxie's head, which had been drooping lower and lower, finally found a resting-place, and was encircled by her mother's arm.

From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)

Isabel had been drooping like a strange bird, since she came to the Alms House, and Mary knew that it would cheer her to see her poor mother in that calm sleep.

From The Old Homestead by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

The boy had been drooping sadly of late—the heat tried him—and, as Audrey knew, Biddy's homely dishes seldom tempted his sickly appetite.

From Lover or Friend by Carey, Rosa Nouchette