How to Use drop-off in a Sentence

drop-off

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• As the transport nears the drop-off point, the ramp lowers and a drag parachute sucks the pallet out of the plane.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2023
• Further from the pavilion, plans for the parking lot call for a large space for drop-off.
  — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• At times, the trail itself could be less than four feet wide with sheer drop-off cliffs right next to us.
  — Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• The hotel has an in-house car for local drop-offs and pickups.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
• The trip to the drop-off point – Kahekili Beach Park, just north of Lahaina – takes just over an hour.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• Police found a ledger with states written down for pick-up and drop-off sites for dogs.
  — Sarah Nelson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• This would include drop-off and pick-up times, Olsen wrote in an email to The Sacramento Bee.
  — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2024
• Christmas trees do not need to be cut down for recycling at the drop-off.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
• Airports can still set pick-up and drop-off fees for customers’ trips.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• Plus, the drop-off spot must be within a store’s delivery zone.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 20 June 2023
• There was no drop-off by Stafford in the defeat, which ended when the Ravens returned a punt for a touchdown.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Juneau Avenue is the drop-off spot, including for ride-shares.
  — Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
• Fair warning: The entrance road is winding, made of gravel, and there are places with steep drop-offs.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2023
• To use a drop-off container, bring a deer's head with 4-6 inches of the neck attached and antlers removed.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2023
• Subsistence fishing for chinook salmon is now banned on the Yukon, due to the severe drop-off in the number of fish.
  — Clem De Pressigny, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2023
• Shuttle pickup and drop-off: 31st Street and Gillham Road.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2024
• But both years marked a steep drop-off from pre-pandemic levels.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
• Where to donate books near me: Check out these maps for drop-off locations in your area Want to get on BookTok?
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
• The fact that the drop-off in sales has been so gradual is yet further evidence that the band is reaching new fans.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 19 Apr. 2024
• All of the drop-off locations of both companies will have normal hours, as well.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2024
• Crabbers have in the past attributed the drop-off in numbers to overfishing.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2023
• By age 5, 85% of children stop wetting the bed, with significant drop-offs in the first few years after.
  — Haley Weiss, Time, 24 July 2023
• Haverly recalled using the metal drop-off box inside the library for about a decade.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• The question is whether the drop-off is significant enough for employers and workers to feel it.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• According to the plan, school buses will transport students from Winter Hill to Olin Hall at drop-off and pick-up times.
  — Gia Orsino, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• The rise of streaming and a drop-off in moviegoing have led to belt-tightening at the parent companies of many news outlets.
  — Katie Robertson, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Next Year' As the video shows, however, the parents are both grappling with tears after getting back in the car after drop-off.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
• Tax revenues have since been uneven, with steep fiscal drop-offs forecast once the big tax cut takes full effect.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• If someone in your life offers to cook a meal for you, help with chores around the house or assist with school drop-offs and pickups for your kids, take them up on the offer.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2024
• Life as a parent of two sons had become a series of child-care drop-offs and pickups with her husband in Chicago’s West Loop.
  — Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023

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drop off

2 of 2 verb

• In the video, the moose takes long steps past the school, walking by cars lined up to drop off children for the day.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• Then his brother had dropped off González at an aunt’s house to sleep.
  — Kate Linthicum, Keri Blakinger and Connor Sheets, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Once all the blooms have dropped off, trim off the flower spike just above the second node (small bump) up from the base of the plant.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2023
• It was wheeled outside and dropped off in a nearby stream.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2024
• Carr, says Haggard, had just dropped off a fare when she was shot in her car.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
• The twins were dropped off at about 9:30 a.m. Monday to the Detroit Police's 9th Precinct.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2023
• Three from last year dropped off and the cut-off to make the list increased to $1 billion from $960 million.
  — Naazneen Karmali, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Mail ballots must be dropped off at the polls by 8 p.m. on Election Day.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024
• And that Alix Earle, is how moms dress for pick up and drop off . . .
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
• Gibson dropped off a package at a home on a dead-end road, Bates said.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2023
• Before then, meals were driven to and dropped off at school each day.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2024
• Seems like there could have been another round in between the first two to even out the drop off, yeah?
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• Four of the men were dropped off at a hospital with gunshot wounds, Howard said.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023
• For a $25 fee, parents can drop off their kids at the children's club and enjoy a date night.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2023
• Parents were given maps of the parking lots and plans for how to drop off children.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 1 Sep. 2023
• Carr, an Uber driver, dropped off a friend at the store moments before she was killed.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• Maybe they were even being dropped off from other cities.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• Best Buy and Staples allow customers to drop off items in store for free.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
• Soon thereafter, a school bus dropped off Noem's children.
  — CBS News, 27 Apr. 2024
• Two days later, she was led to a bus and dropped off at a shelter, with no idea as to her son’s whereabouts.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• She was dropped off at the park in a Tupperware container in 2021.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Getting dropped off at the Academy Awards this year in a school bus with the rest of the crew was another high point.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• Her 10-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son rang the doorbell and dropped off a Halloween goody bag on the porch for the girl's friend, police said.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Since the stabbing, people have come to the deli to drop off cards and check in with its employees, said Albhar.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024
• After arriving at the friend's home, the woman's 10-year-old daughter and 6-year-old old dropped off the treats at the home's front porch.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2023
• More:Louisville Public Works opens yard waste drop off sites Monday.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2023
• Here is a list of candidates on both sides of the aisle, though expect to see more names drop off as the race progresses.
  — Brigid Kennedy, theweek, 24 Jan. 2024
• The couch itself was dropped off inside the front door in two large boxes, with text alerts on the day it was scheduled to arrive.
  — Alida Nugent, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• This year, Toronto (No. 5) re-entered the list, after dropping off for a few years.
  — Liz Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
• Instead, the archivist dropped off just three boxes for González to sort through.
  — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024