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Sentence Examples
In one vigorous print, Mary sits blowsily at a table guzzling gin with her servants, legs indecorously spread and garter drooping.
And he took the observation that with the food poisoning called botulism, one of the first symptoms was crossed eyes, or drooping of the lids.
I see the droplets soak into the stale, brown grass, and I watch it pound the drooping daylilies and roses.
Lower branches are pendulous or drooping downward, middle branches stick out horizontally, and upper ones are quite upright.
It is a very attractive, narrow evergreen with upsweeping branches and drooping branchlets.
The Chinooks are closest and I can see the moonlight glancing off their huge, drooping 30 ft rotor blades.
I don't mean the crazy shattered glass style tattooage plastered across her back, drooping over her shoulders.
This was all too easy, he thought, as he gathered her up in his arms, her feet over one and her neck drooping dreamily downwards over the other.
Its clouds of white lace cap flowers in summer and its purple foliage with drooping clusters of berries in autumn make it a winter garden staple.
If you sit with a drooping chin, you will create an illusion of having a double chin no matter how thin you are.
I sat down after dinner to catch up on correspondence but found my eyes drooping almost immediately.
Sprightly angels support Francoise's massive, floating, upright heraldic device, while mournful lions stoop to stabilize Louis's drooping shield.
She sagged against me, using my supernatural strength as a wall against her drooping form.
Mark stepped off of the train, his eyes slightly drooping, and his black high-tops dragging behind him on the floor.
Ten actors dressed in black wear white masks with drooping, sad eyes and sagging, wide, miserable frowns.
Mary's cloche hat was drooping over her face with her reddish blond curls weighed heavily almost to the base of her neck.
Keeping incredibly low, we wiggled our way through the trees, passing just below the drooping branches of a large pine tree.
He's wearing a madras hat, plaid women's slacks that go down only as far as his shins, and a plaid jacket with two drooping flowers in his lapel.
Neither horse looked tired even though they were both drooping their heads.
A few feet away, his knees bent and his feet drooping off the edge of a bench, Devin was waking as well.
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This helps prevent them from drooping or even completely bending over and breaking their stalks.
They are committed bottom-grubbers, with drooping shoulders, dour expressions, and unfortunate barbels, or chin whiskers.
Then white umbels of pignuts contrast with the drooping honey-scented cream plumes of meadowsweet.
The large beaked nose framed by drooping shaggy eyebrows emphasizes his ethnicity.
There are drooping shanties, skinny dogs and an old man bent over his plants.
The buds are heavy, each so full of fragrant petals that they are drooping under the weight of their ampleness.
Large or disturbed plants regenerate clonally by layering of drooping shoots.
In late spring, the arching stems carry drooping clusters of small, tubular flowers that are white tipped with green.
The musty, moth-eaten curtains, once a grand crimson, were now dull brown and drooping listlessly.
There sat my mother, her black hair a mass of curls drooping over her shoulders, a wide smile curving her mouth and stars sparkling in her dark blue eyes.
On the other hand, it has restored drooping public support in allied countries for the idea of allying with Washington.
In the spring, the male attracts females by gobbling, puffing his feathers, spreading his tail, swelling his face wattles, and drooping his wings.
I don't know why, but sweet ice tea never tastes better than when you're kicking back in a lawn chair, belly full, sleepy eyes drooping as you listen to the band.
His foot was seemingly lame, eyes hollow, face drooping with age.
The patient was a 6-year-old right-handed girl who presented with a slowly progressive drooping of the left side of her mouth of 9 months' duration.
Everyone loves the drooping fragrant lilac tassels of Wisteria, but it is not a plant for a small garden, particularly as your neighbour may not relish a Wisteria invasion.
Quarry is eaten on the ground or on a stump, the hawk standing with both feet on its victim, drooping wings to form a tent and spreading its tail as if to give support.
He was extremely tall, but he couldn't have weighed more than a hundred pounds beneath all the dirt, a shambling scarecrow of drooping skin and rags.
But men, I am sorry to say, cut poor silhouettes of their better halves shadowing them in their sprees with a drooping face and an even droopier wallet!
Through the darkness I could make out a modest, tan coloured house with an overgrown garden and grubby looking shudders drooping from the windows.
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The shoots grow off of longer horizontal or drooping branchlets.
A spiderweb of long vines covered the mouth of the cave, drooping down into the water, but Jonah passed between the vines easily and darkness fell around him.
Drain the water and set the spears on a plate, and cut them to size so they can fit on top of the muffins without drooping over the sides too much.
The sky is grey, a deep heavy sky above, drooping from the vaults.
He slowly followed the road away from the town, past the olives, under which purple anemones were drooping in the chill of dawn, and rich-green herbage was pressing thick.
Frequently, he pauses to alight and hang beneath the drooping stem of a bluebell to sip nectar, his pale sulphurous wings contrasting splendidly with the deep blue flowers.
Finally, be sure to deadhead faded or drooping blossoms and leaves.
This auburn light danced and glinted on my companion's drooping gold earrings as we surveyed the cars below, and held his face in profile as if he might only be a photograph.
On one occasion in early September, I witnessed drooping of the leaves when a sudden summer shower with gusty winds and a brief, but heavy downpour occurred.
Ten days later he noticed drooping of his left eyelid and double vision.
In summer 2001 the Wolverhampton section was temporarily closed because of a risk of electrocution posed by drooping power cables.
Avoid any plants that are wilted or drooping or crowded close together in a display, which can cause premature bract loss.
The drooping, soft lemon meringue pie is zesty and light, while the vanilla ice-cream with both dishes is sweet and fresh.
No. 3 is a group of drooping fuchslas, scarlet, pink and purple, with a sprankle of witch grass.
Nodding tips, gently drooping branchlets, and fine, soft, dark green needles make them among the most graceful of all conifers.
First signs of the condition can be double vision and drooping eyelids.
When grown out of strong winds and encouraged by staking and pruning, the tree can reach 20 feet, forming a wide canopy of stiff, twisting branches and drooping branchlets.
She was trying to hang in, but her chin was drooping onto her chest.
His hair, gray as the underwing of the owl whose note he forged, straggled in uncut disarray from under the drooping rim of a battered and weatherworn hat.
Blepharochalasis is another medical condition, in which the upper eyelid is properly located on the iris, but excessive skin causes the drooping lids.
Examples from Classical Literature
Women and girls were there, cowed and drooping, with torn garments and bare feet.
The picturesque effect of the birches is remarkable, flanked by the massive outlines and drooping tassels of the rimu.
Paresis or asthenia may be found in the trunk muscles, or evidenced by weakness of the grip, or drooping of the head to one side.
She stood a little drooping and shaken, where for a moment she had been erect and tensed.
The closing of the door behind Northwick roused a little black figure drooping forward on the benching in one corner.
Naghandunguy nang galakaw, He was drunk, and he was all tuckered out, walking with his head drooping.
The leaves of this plant are linear and channelled, and the drooping flowers form a raceme of from six to twelve blooms.
And she might be hippish and drooping for a longer time, and be no less easily at last cured.
I should not be afraid of their mutinying or running away, but of their drooping and dying.
The snowberry bears its pale pink flowers in drooping clusters on the spreading branches of bushes, which grow 2-5 ft. tall.
John slid off and waved a hand at the drooping beast, then began to unsaddle him.
To which she replied, drooping her head again, that she shouldn't dance that night.
Also of his inamorata in a ball gown, eyes lowered to a rose drooping from her hand.
She looked taller, straighter in form, and no longer drooping and inelastic.
In its blossoming season the striped maple has a loose, drooping cluster of yellow, bell-like flowers.
Memory pictured her pale and drooping, nay gradually sinking under the cureless malady which brought her to her grave at last.
Fat men are scarce in these districts, all having a slender frame and veiny, bleached appearance, with drooping eyelids.
The waggons rumbled on, and the horses picked their own way, with drooping heads.
The tufted duck is a prettily-marked species, and has the feathers on the back of the head elongated into a drooping crest.
They had drawn close to one another, and stood there rigid in their drooping skirts.
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Roma was now sitting with drooping head, and her tears were falling on her hands.
These drooping branches have torn my liberty cap into tatters.
He was dressed in mackinaw, and wore a fur cap with drooping ear-flaps.
He passed those same places once more with drooping head, voiceless, tearless, almost breathless.
But Porthos stands in his bath drooping abjectly like a shamed figure cut out of some limp material.
He could see the slaver on the drooping jowls, and the great fangs agape to seize and destroy him.
It was the last of the regiment's stay in Meryton, and all the young ladies in the neighbourhood were drooping apace.
Here, however, an object presented itself, which rekindled their hopes, and reanimated their drooping spirits.
Alice sat in an attitude of profound repose, with the long brown lashes drooping over her eyes.
Behind were the little clump of steel-clad horsemen, their lances raised, with long pensils drooping down the oaken shafts.
She raised her drooping head and again regarded him deprecatingly.
Then he beat a retreat, with drooping head, but the last in the field, like a general who has fought well.
Life is a hearty and vigorous movement to them, not a drooping slouch.
He was so acute that he must be aware of the drooping of their intimacy.
This was Weaver speaking, a small, wiry man with a drooping moustache.
The westering sun was drooping heavily toward its fiery couch.
That rusty black hat with the drooping red flower, it might not be Ona's, but there was very little likelihood of it.
The horse, standing with drooping head, does not enliven the picture.
Her long hands, white and bloodless, could be seen drooping over the ends of the arms of the chair.
His long drooping mustache was a sandy color like his goatee.
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But, certes, Robin was anything but a hunter this bright morning as he walked along with head drooping in a most love-lorn way.
He leaned back in his chair with drooping eyelids and a tolerant smile, basking in this sudden gleam of sunshine.
Most people know Salvador Dali as the peculiarly mustached surrealist painter of drooping clocks.
Kama looked from beneath her drooping lids at him, and smiled slightly.
They were turned to turtledoves, and flew away with drooping wings.
The haughty drooping glance struck crushingly the carpet at the Assistant Commissioner's feet.
Her hind-quarters were a little drooping, and in her fore-legs, and still more in her hind-legs, there was a noticeable curvature.
His pal, who didn't come up much higher than his elbow, stepping forward exhibited a pale face with a long drooping nose and no chin to speak of.
The habit of the tree is drooping, like that of the weeping willow.
The yellow flag was drooping over the roadway in the hot sun.
Helen's head, always drooping, sank a little lower as she finished this sentence.
The moon, drooping in the western board, looked at her radiantly.
Other seven faces there were, carried higher, seven dead faces, whose drooping eyelids and half-seen eyes awaited the Last Day.
The firelight rose and fell on his wizen little face and his nervous, drooping hands.
In the damper hollows the Mauritia palms threw out their graceful drooping fronds.
There were also several extensive brakes of the Fuchsia, covered with its beautiful drooping flowers, but very difficult to crawl through.
The clock tower boomed a brazen blast above his drooping head.
Winks was the master of the upper third, a weak-kneed man with drooping eye-lids, He was too tall for his strength, and his movements were slow and languid.
Her beautiful eyes glanced askance at her husband's face, and her own assumed the timid, deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its drooping tail.
With drooping shoulders and dull eyes Tarzan stood gazing dumbly at the insensate panel which hid from him what horrid secret he dared not even guess.
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He sat slowly down, blew out his chest, passed his hand caressingly down his beard, and looked with drooping eyelids and supercilious eyes at the crowded hall before him.
The carrier had a way of keeping his head down, like his horse, and of drooping sleepily forward as he drove, with one of his arms on each of his knees.
To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.
Over the head of the bed was an alabaster bracket, on which a beautiful sculptured angel stood, with drooping wings, holding out a crown of myrtle-leaves.
He was clean-shaven and blue-chinned, with bristling black hair, and keen brown eyes which shone out very brightly from between pouched under-lids and drooping upper ones.
The little one, not more than four or five, was on his knees, his hands folded, and his close-clipped, bare head drooping forward in deep dejection.
Her eyelids, weighted with trouble, continued drooping as before.
Sad, sad and drooping, looked the little white maiden, as she stood on the hearth-rug, with the hot blast of the stove striking through her like a pestilence.
