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
But spider-webs have drooped them low, To be His curtain soft and dim.
From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee
Melancholy seemed to have drooped her darkest wings over her.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
Variety was perhaps even a necessary aliment of his active mind, which without it might have drooped and languished.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary
Through the curling twigs of boughs just green, its wings fly towards the stars; but the next moment they have drooped to mope beneath the damp bushes.
From Fraternity by John Galsworthy
