droop
verb (used without object)
to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
have drooped
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present perfectof droop.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“The Red Wings a week ago would have drooped down on the bench and the energy would have been terrible on our bench,” forward Dylan Larkin told the Detroit Free Press.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2018
He could scarcely believe that in a few days her life could so have drooped as under a dreadful blight.
From The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen
The gentle, blue-eyed blonde whom I was looking for three days ago would have drooped timidly.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Others would have drooped and hung the head, and mourned over the cruelty of man, and sighed over the wants of the nestlings; but thou, by at once recovering the loss, hast forgotten all.
From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles W. Sanders
She seemed to have drooped into something like a faded flower.
From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
