drop

“Put three drops of oil into the mixture.”

“A circular horizontal surface of indefinite diameter gave a drop of water weighing 2·10 grains. This is therefore the weight of the maximum drop formed on a flat surface, and it will be seen that it very nearly coincides with the weight of the drop formed upon a surface seven-tenths of an inch diameter. The drop in this case is always formed at the centre of the surface, this being the centre of the greatest molecular attraction amongst the liquid particles.”

“My first treatment consisted of one eye drop in each eye which was supposed to determine the condition of the eye and make it easier to examine them the next day.”

“The eye is able to hold only about 20 percent of the amount of fluid in a standard eye drop. Therefore, put only one eye drop in your eye at a time. If you have been instructed to use more than one eye drop, wait about 5 minutes between the drops. This will allow more of the drops to be absorbed and will reduce waste.”

“ear drops    eye drops”

“My aunt asked for just a drop more tea.”

“He was thirsty but there wasn’t a drop of water to be found”

“He usually enjoys a drop after dinner.    She won’t touch a drop while she’s on duty.”

“It doesn’t matter where you’re from, anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.”

“She is rather fond of her drops, and is then particularly good-humoured; it is only when she is getting sober that she is querulous and nervous.”

“Drops are another source of juice apple supply. As the pickers pick apples in orchards oriented toward fresh-market or canning apples, apples fall or are accidentally knocked to the ground; these are drops. The only use for drops is juice production.”

“Drops are fruit that has fallen to the ground naturally or that is dropped or knocked off during harvest. Drops have no value except for pressing for juice. While the value of drops is usually minimal, they must be removed from the orchards; otherwise, they attract mice which later in the season, once the apples are gone, gnaw on the roots of apple trees.”

“Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.”

“[…] and lo! the gallows is built up; the solemn bell tolls through the dismal gray of the early morning, the drop creaks under the guilty feet, and the penalty of crime is paid.”

“She. Have you ever seen a man hanged? He. Yes. Once. She. What was it for? He. Murder, of course. She. Murder. Is that so great a sin after all? I wonder how he felt before the drop fell.”

“Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.”

“La Cage's upstage drops include two of the St. Tropez harbor (one for the day and another for the night), [... an] ocean drop (used in an Act I dream sequence), and an abstract chandelier drop (used in the second act[…]).”

“In The Rover, one of these esthetically important elements was the arrangement of the upstage drops. Originally the drop was split into three sections, with obvious and blatant seams between them.”

“That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn’t break any bones.”

“The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns.”

“The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.”

“The spy made the drop, leaving the plans under the tree as arranged.”

“2002 saw the drop of a new album whose title riffed on the many magazine cover stories calling Sum 41's music infectious.”

“Turned out this was the drop party for popster Effigy's latest release, BeatMeKickMeHoldMe.”

“What the first column in the table shows you is how much the casinos won as a percentage of the drop. For example, on the roulette table for every $100 that went into the drop box the casino wonj $22.70 or 22.70%. […] In other words, the drop tells you how many chips were bought at that table, but it doesn't tell you how many bets were made with those chips.”

“[A]ll those present shared the all-important political connections required to get a ticket to the execution. News reporters, doctors, and members of the juries had prime spots right by the platform, so that they could see the drop and record the time of death.”

“The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop, expecting his tight end to be open.”

“You take off, make the steep drop, hear the white water rumbling behind you and feel the spray on your back.”

“The drop in demand for oil resulted in a drop in prices.”

“[T]he volume of money was expected to fluctuate with the volume of business activity so that a drop in business activity would bring a drop in the volume of money outstanding. […] If the volume of money is reduced, it tends to produce a slight drop in demand for all sorts of commodities.”

“On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop.”

“An Ananda truck coming down a steep, winding mountain road completely lost its brakes and crashed through a thin guard rail over an almost sheer 1000 foot drop. It was caught and held by a solitary tree that was growing in the one and only spot where it could prevent a certain fatal plunge. No one was even slightly injured.”

“A further point is, that the convenience of the ship herself may interfere with the disposition of sails. A high forecastle will shorten the drop of the foresail, and a poop may seriously interfere with the spanker.”

“Her mainyard was 80 feet long, and her mainsail had a drop of 40 feet.”

“I left the plans at the drop, like you asked.”

“A drop is a place where the stolen property can be stored. It may be a warehouse, an apartment, or a garage. At the drop, a group of persons called loaders remove the merchandise from the truck and store it.”

“But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM [electronic dance music] accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).”

“Just as dubstep has grown in popularity and combined with many different genres, the drop has become a generalized type of which there are many individually varying instances, including dubstep bass-drop. As LA Times critic Randall Roberts notes, even good-girl tween pop idol Taylor Swift uses a drop in her Max-Martin-Produced track “I Knew You Were Trouble.””

“`Well what about first drop then? Garner will be on by then, I'll smash him all over the park.'”

“The kindlye dewe drops from the higher tree, / And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.”

“A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.”

“When you defeat this boss, there's a chance a power-up will drop.”

“This item can sometimes drop from chests.”

“Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!”

“If your clothes are on fire, stop, drop, and roll.”

“Nothing, ſays Seneca, is ſo melancholy a circumſtance in human life, or ſo ſoon reconciles us to the thought of our own death, as the reflection and prospect of one friend after another dropping round us!”

“When he again found privacy consistent, however—and it happened to be long in coming—he took up their conversation very much where it had dropped.”

“The stock dropped 1.5% yesterday.”

“We can take our vacation when the price of fuel drops.”

“My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.”

“The song, 180 beats per minute, drops to 150 BPM near the end.”

“Billy’s voice dropped suddenly when he turned 12.”

“The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.”

“Do drop by soon and I’ll lend you that book.”

“We’ll drop in on her tomorrow.”

“The album Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.”

“But more important, if I dropped, Marty would have won the hand automatically.”

“The heavens […] dropped at the presence of God.”

“The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.”

“persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops”

“Don’t drop that plate!    The police ordered the men to drop their weapons.”

“But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.”

“The monsters drop health pickups when killed.”

“When opened, these chests have a chance to drop powerful items.”

“The stare seemed to abash Poirot. He dropped his eyes and began fiddling with the papers in front of him.”

“Drop a basket of fries.”

“Here is a simple example: suppose you are in the process of writing a 15-page proposal and at a certain point you decide that, in order to fit all your material, you want to drop the font size from 12 to 11.”

“to drop a lamb”

“The lecturer would drop hints whenever the students struggled.”

“name drop”

“As she had a free moment, she dropped her a text.”

“Drop me a note when you get to the city.”

“Make any sudden movements and I will drop you!”

“That gang rules the streets, dropping opponents with guns, bombs and other weapons.”

“Could you drop me at the airport on your way to work tomorrow?”

“I’ll be dropping the parcel at your place later.”

“I’m tired of this subject. Will you just drop it?”

“They suddenly dropt the pursuit.”

“I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiancée.”

“I’ve been dropped from the football team.”

“If Carly Telford’s replacement of Karen Bardsley, because of a hamstring injury, was enforced, the switch to 4-4-1-1 was not. This new-look configuration saw Rachel Daly deployed in front of Lucy Bronze down the right, Toni Duggan and Fran Kirby dropped, Beth Mead introduced on the left and Nikita Parris moved up front.”

“I had to drop calculus because it was taking up too much of my time.”

“The specialists she had taken her daughter to see attributed her collection of symptoms to the lingering effect of the many concussions she suffered playing sports. She had at least one concussion every year since she was in the fourth grade. Because of her frequent head injuries, her parents made her drop all her sports.”

“My friends went to the football game, but I skipped, as I had just dropped a lot of money on a new bike wheel.”

“The question was: Who put the most in the collection box? The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.”

“I drop knowledge wherever I go.”

“They dropped the album Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays.”

“That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].”

“Cockneys drop their aitches.”

“I love it when he drops his funky beats.”

“That guy can drop the bass like a monster.”

“Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody’s business.”

“Warne dropped Tendulkar on 99. Tendulkar went on to get a century next ball.”

“their waved coats dropped with gold”

“Next, you drop to a shell.”

“The next step drops the user to a recovery shell.”

“Drop and give me 20, now!”