drop
noun
a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
have dropt
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present perfectof drop.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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There again! when the full fruit of the royal promise might have dropt into thy mouth hadst thou but opened it to thank him.
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
But until then, you are my Queen; and I'll kiss those lips that have dropt music on my heart.
From Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Bernard Shaw
Possibly a word may have dropt out, and the original passage may have stood thus: ‘Ignomy in ransom and free pardon are Of two opposed houses: lawful mercy Is nothing kin to foul redemption.’
From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
A chap 'at's worried to deeath becoss his stocks or shares have dropt fifty per cent connot enter into a poor woman's anxiety abaat flaar or mait gooan up a penny a paand.
From Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by John Hartley
Subsequently to this I must have dropt asleep, for after a while I found myself huddled up in a corner of the boat, and must have fallen there from my seat.
From The Little Savage by Frederick Marryat
