Example Sentences

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But on other occasions, particularly when he is tired, the aged President will droop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Director Crocker noted that tomato plants are so sensitive that they will droop in the presence of one part of gas to 100,000 of air.

From Time Magazine Archive

No. When you do, your eyes will droop before mine.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

If such be the future prospects of our army and navy, their spirits will droop, and half that ardour that generates success subside!

From An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794, Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. by Willyams, Cooper

She will droop for a while, but revive when she receives his letters.

From Dawn by Adams, Harriet A.