How to Use droop in a Sentence

droop

1 of 2 verb

• The tree's branches drooped under the weight of the snow.
• The flowers were drooping in the hot sun.
• His spirits drooped when he didn't get the job.
• Her eyelids drooped as she grew tired.
• Once the center blades start to droop, the palm is doomed.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• Jake is forced to watch as Neteyam's eyes droop with his last breath.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• The road was shutdown, as live power lines drooped across the road.
  — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2017
• There is more work yet ahead of us and a long, eye-drooping drive home.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2020
• His right eye and corner of the right side of his mouth both appeared to droop on air.
  — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 18 May 2020
• The anchor lines were tight, but one was drooping in the water.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Learn how to revive hydrangeas when their blooms start to droop.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
• My arm went numb, and my face went numb and started drooping.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
• The symptoms are: Face drooping: Ask a person to smile.
  — Julie Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 22 July 2019
• The moves needed to be more defined, the fingers to point higher, the shoulders to droop more.
  — New York Times, 8 Jan. 2022
• The piece ends with all the instruments drooping their pitch in a downward slide.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• The busload of tourists saw her and basically drooped over the side of the bus screaming her name!
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2024
• His hair, flecked with gray, drooped on his forehead and small dark rings had formed under his eyes.
  — Michael Tackett, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
• Brannen, who quickly shook hands with the victors, walked back away with his head drooped, his eyes fixed on the floor.
  — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• The elastic waistband doesn’t droop or sag throughout the day, and ankles stay in place thanks to a cuff at the bottom hem.
  — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
• Apple started pushing the plan last year as iPhone sales drooped.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
• With no cap or stem, this unique mushroom consists of long spines that droop down like a tousled mop of hair.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
• The square spaces between the grid are just ⅜-inch in size, ensuring your baked goods don’t droop into the holes.
  — Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2020
• Finnish laser scans revealed the reason tree branches droop at night.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• One eyelid droops a little over a flinty blue eye, two fingers on his left hand were lost to a buzz saw a decade ago.
  — Ana Swanson, Washington Post, 6 June 2017
• After a while, your eyelids get heavy and your head begins to droop, slowly at first.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 17 Feb. 2022
• The candidate walks briskly, but his shoulders are drooped, as if deflated by the effort of the speech.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2016
• Next, iron a hard crease into the pant leg and then use double-sided tape (topstick works best) to keep the front and back of the pants from drooping.
  — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 4 Feb. 2014
• The plant is in a 10-inch pot and has thrived, blooming every year until this spring when the leaves started to droop while still blooming.
  — oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2021
• Typically, when cut at the stem and arranged in a vase, the delicate flowers wither and droop in a few days.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 Mar. 2024
• Some even used a camera aimed at the driver to discern if drivers were becoming inattentive, including drooping their head or simply averting their view from the straight-ahead.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2024

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droop

2 of 2 noun

• The leaves above droop and die — and the tree is doomed.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• Ask the person to smile and check to see if one side of the face droops.
  — Trihealth, Cincinnati.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Does one side of the face droop? Arms: Ask the person to raise both arms.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
• Once flowers start to droop, snap them off so the plant can focus on new growth.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 June 2023
• His body droops and his face sags, jowls draping under a thatch of beard.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• The wings of a ceiling fan droop toward the floor like a wilted flower.
  — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021
• The gauges in his ears have been confiscated and the lobes droop along with his spirits.
  — David Debolt, The Mercury News, 17 June 2017
• His long nose droops towards a thin goatee on his chin.
  — The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
• Watch Gage discuss the group chat — and how a botched botox procedure made one of his eyes droop for six weeks — in the clip above.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• The former Green Beret medic let his mustache droop, and his hair reach his shoulders.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 24 May 2019
• Her breasts droop; her navel frowns; her ankles bulge; her shoulders slump.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019
• The camera keeps rolling and through the inexorable march of time, the burger sits, the lettuce wilts, the tomato droops, and mold grows on the burger.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 19 Feb. 2020
• Trees show distress when their leaves first droop, curl and brown, and finally drop.
  — Carol Stocker, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2022
• As the teacher starts reading a book or telling a story, her eyes, hidden with the camera off, start to droop.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2021
• But also less, judging, at least, from the stupendous droop of my mouth.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• The thought of trying to store a van in Lower Manhattan made his insides droop.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• Rents must still be paid and brands advertised—the poshest ones spend the best part of $1bn a year on marketing—even as sales droop.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• Dennis Hopper grew one for Easy Rider that seemed to droop from the weight of its own wokeness.
  — Miles Raymer, Esquire, 22 Dec. 2016
• As the day gained strength around them, August watched his father’s eyes droop, then close completely.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• The injuries left him with two different colored eyes and a slight facial droop.
  — Dallas News, 23 Oct. 2022
• But on a longer cast, just a slight bit of droop will magnify into larger and larger loops.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 30 Dec. 2020
• The mature honey-locust tree which shades the yard outside my studio compelled me to capture the droop and drift of its leaves.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Engage your core and keep your back flat, so your body looks like one straight line from your head all the way down to your heels; don't bend at your hips or let any part of your body droop.
  — Lindsey Lanquist, SELF, 9 Apr. 2018
• One wing droops like a puppy’s ear, the fuselage is dented and bent, the propeller and instruments gone.
  — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• When the facial droop on his right side was saying no, his left side—eye and crinkled forehead—was insisting yes.
  — Paul Theroux, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• Dara,’ added a cascade of plums and pinks, its droop aping Lunia’s forlornness.
  — Lindsey Taylor, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• Place the tree away from fireplaces, wood stoves, direct sunlight or other heat sources, because the heat will make the tree droop and might create a fire hazard.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
• His face appears to flicker in and out of the head that houses it; his mouth, normally in a wry downturn, droops and then disappears.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 11 June 2018
• So much spark has been backed out by the anti-detonation electronics that the horsepower curve droops like licorice in the sun.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023
• Exposure to low outside temperatures, even for just a few minutes, can chill or freeze the plants, causing the leaves to droop and fall off.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024