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

Fireflies abandon every tree and shrub for the fire-tree the moment it puts forth its buds, and nothing can coax them away until the ominous scarlet blossoms have drooped and fallen to the ground.

From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Stuart, Florence Partello

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 Galsworthy, John

His condition may have been vastly improved and yet he may have drooped without apparent cause, in his temporary home, pining for those days which were passed in the Eden of his life.

From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon

His head seemed to have drooped still lower.

From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe