List of antonyms from "drive to distraction" to antonyms from "drop a line"


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Definition of the day : « drooped »

  • verb hang down; languish
Example sentences :
  • After the marriage of his daughter he for some time moped and drooped.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Miss Mullet drooped a weary eyelid and sighed a hopeless sigh.
  • Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Slowly he drooped his head, and sat there considering, weighing, chin on breast.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The two men looked into each other's eyes and Daniel's drooped.
  • Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
  • His eyelids were beating rapidly, then drooped for an instant.
  • Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad
  • He drooped his head for a moment, and uttered one word—rat-pies!
  • Extract from : « The Rambles of a Rat » by A. L. O. E.
  • The laurels of the conqueror of the Turks drooped and withered in Flanders.
  • Extract from : « Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 » by Various
  • But spider-webs have drooped them low, To be His curtain soft and dim.
  • Extract from : « Enamels and Cameos and other Poems » by Thophile Gautier
  • I must say this subtle flattery did not raise my drooped spirits.
  • Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan
  • She lifted her head and, as their eyes met, drooped it again, faint with love.
  • Extract from : « Fort Amity » by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch