droop
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These cables are made of metal, which expands in heat, causing the lines to droop.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The shrub — reportedly named for leaves that can droop and coil like poodle fur — primarily grows in Southern California in chaparral between roughly 3,300 to 7,500 feet, on granitic slopes and ridges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025
One way to overcome efficiency droop is to increase the area of the LED, which gives you more light, but it also means that you need a larger chip.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
In the spring, maroon flowers droop from the branches.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024
I hated her weak neck, the way it did not support her head but let it droop; her head would fall backward.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
The split between the two companies points to a so-called K-shaped economy —named that way because the upper arm rises while the lower arm droops.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
But the point of his cowl hood droops behind his head, perhaps from the sheer weight of finding out he’s died.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2024
An unframed and unfurled painting by Sheila Crider, hung so that each end droops, offers the show’s exemplary title: “Shape Shifter.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
It droops under its own weight, a turquoise hyacinth in bloom on the first day of spring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
His face droops a bit, and I can't help but laugh.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Mark's speech started to go, and one side of his face drooped - classic stroke symptoms.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025
She drew laughter when she stepped in to lift the microphone near a student’s face after it repeatedly drooped too low.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
She was on a United flight from Toronto to San Francisco when her now-deceased father, then in his 80s, began showing concerning symptoms: The right side of his face and arm drooped.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2023
Hicks drooped his head for a few seconds, thinking he caught the ball and the drive was foul, and two runs scored before he reacted and picked up the ball.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
Temp, whose antennas had drooped down over his head, reached out and touched Gregor with a feeler.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
Other symptoms include constipation, drooping eyelids, sluggish pupils and a weak cry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
Those figures are a remarkable contrast to the drooping ratings for CBS’s other mainstay news programs in the morning External link and evening External link.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Another possibility is that people will use their refund money to build rainy-day funds, at a time when savings rates are drooping.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
And there are plenty of hybrid creatures, apocalyptic nightmares, strange juxtapositions and drooping abnormalities of the melting-watch variety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
She drove her bread to the bottom of the container and scooped up a drooping, goopy mound of it.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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