How to Use drop shot in a Sentence

drop shot

noun

• The rig starts with a drop shot weight at the end of your line.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Jan. 2023
• In the third set, Alcaraz again used the forehand drop shot to hold for a 3-2 lead.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• Sakkari broke to open the second set when Gauff dumped a drop shot into the net.
  — Howard Fendrich, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• The drop shot took the worm quickly to the bottom where the bigger bass fed at a more leisurely pace.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023
• Schwartzman went to net 71 times; Thiem 53, often to track down a deft drop shot.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
• Williams broke for a 4-2 lead in the second when Goerges tried a rare drop shot that caught the top of the net tape and fell on her side.
  — Howard Fendrich, Fox News, 13 July 2018
• Then Tsitsipas hit a drop shot that landed just a few feet from the net.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 13 June 2021
• Serving at 3-5 in the fourth, Shelton raced into get a drop shot but hooked it wide to give Paul a match point.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Mertens, though, fought back to deuce and held serve following a gutsy drop shot and an ace.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2018
• The set — the first one Brooksby lost in five matches — concluded with a drop shot into the net.
  — Howard Fendrich, baltimoresun.com, 8 Aug. 2021
• That fed into a tiebreaker, which Alcaraz evened at 4-4 with a wicked drop shot.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
• Nadal's drop shot caught Kyrgios by surprise and the Australian let loose with an F-bomb during the point.
  — Beth Harris, ajc, 18 Mar. 2022
• And her confidence to reach any drop shot rivals Rafael Nadal’s.
  — Matt Fuchs, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
• Medvedev held a set point at 6-5 in the tiebreaker and faltered again, even though Thiem felt something in his right heel while chasing a drop shot.
  — Howard Fendrich, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2020
• The top lures have been tube jigs, drop shot rigs tipped with soft plastics or nightcrawlers, golden shiners, leeches and crayfish.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• Pegula tried a drop shot, and Swiatek ran to it, reaching out to flip the ball over the net at an impossible angle.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
• If Ruud dried a drop shot, odds are a relentless Nadal would bull-charge towards the net to smack it past his opponent.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 5 June 2022
• The scented Berkley Trout Worms could do well on these drop shot rigs especially with Wacky rigging.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Mar. 2021
• Tube jigs, drop shot rigs, jigging spoons and diving plugs are popular.
  — cleveland, 3 Sep. 2020
• Then a backhand drop shot from Djokovic clipped the net and hopped over, enabling Zverev time to run it down and reply with a sharply angled forehand cross-court winner.
  — Andrew Dampf, ajc, 20 Nov. 2021
• Fish are starting to move deeper during the day and can be caught on a Ned Rig or Shaky Head, but the best bite has been on a drop shot rig 20-30 feet deep on main lake gravel points.
  — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 6 June 2018
• Nadal hit the ball at his feet, but Thiem managed a half-volley that turned into an irretrievable drop shot.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• The 24-year-old star took an early advantage in the breaker and finished off Brooksby with a beautiful drop shot on the run towards the net.
  — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2022
• Many of the best points came in the tiebreaker, including a 23-shot rally that Nadal finished off with a forehand half-volley drop shot to set up his first set point.
  — Mattias Karen, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• In the second game of the decisive fifth set against Zverev, Djokovic ended a long baseline rally with a drop shot and a forehand pass after Zverev was forced to come in.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
• Williams took the next point with a swinging forehand volley winner on the 16th stroke, then one after that when Strycova's mediocre drop shot landed in the net.
  — Howard Fendrich, sun-sentinel.com, 11 July 2019
• Williams took the next point with a swinging forehand volley winner on the 16th stroke, then one after that when Strycova’s mediocre drop shot landed in the net.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
• On the first, Wawrinka struck a fine drop shot from the service line with Federer in a troublesome position.
  — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 4 June 2019
• Djokovic seized the third set tiebreak after Nadal hit a backhand drop shot and Djokovic raced forward to push the ball into Nadal’s forehand corner where the Spaniard hit a high return wide.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• Expert angler Billy Zeller, takes big, cruising carp in Loch Raven fishing flies on drop shot rigs.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024