droopy

Example Sentences

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William, who Rona chirpily informs us has “a rare mucous membrane disorder,” is happy to get “lugubrious”: “Meaning extremely sad and droopy? A topic I am all too familiar with.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Malaska’s brushwork is at once vigorous, detailed and patterned, then loose and almost abstract or even droopy and distorted.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

The only trick that both Sandonato and Stevens vouched for is sticking a pin through the stem of droopy flowers about an inch below the bloom.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023

“They melt into droopy brown blossoms that look really awful, like melted chocolate,” he said.

From Washington Times • Feb. 23, 2023

It looked like a sagging face of black rubber, with wide glass portholes like eyes that were frozen in shock, and a droopy snout that ended in a perforated canister.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs