Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: drooped
IPA transcription: [dɹ'upt]
Usage examples
  • Her head drooped.
  • She was poisoned with doubt, as she drooped up to bed.
  • His head drooped and each breath came as a great heave.
  • Her mouth was as kind as her spirited eyes, but it drooped.
  • His ears, which had originally stood up saucily on his head, now drooped in limp dejection.
  • In spite of the best medical aid she steadily drooped, and two years after she had done her brave deed she died in the town of Bamborough where she had been born.
  • The usual candle was burning on the table near his bed, but the great bald head lay motionless on the pillow, and the heavy white eyebrows drooped over closed lids.
  • Mrs. Blaylock turned a glance of speaking tenderness upon the Colonel, fingered for a moment the silvery curl that drooped upon her bosom, then looked again toward the mountains.
  • The little stiff tail seemed to have been fitted in for a heartless joke; and at the other end the thin, flat neck, like a plank covered with old horse-hide, drooped to the ground under the weight of an enormous bony head.
  • For when with due honours they had buried him also hard by the seer, they cast themselves down in helplessness on the sea-shore silently, closely wrapped up, and took no thought for meat or drink; and their spirit drooped in grief, for all hope of return was gone.