drop away

Example Sentences

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"I got it wrong. I felt that was where we were," he told MPs, adding that "things drop away" over Christmas and New Year, but work was now under way "in earnest".

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Moreover, emotional well-being tends to increase in old age, as personal ambitions drop away and we allow ourselves the time to just be.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2023

“The world begins to drop away, there is a rhythm with your arms and legs, you’re in nature and it is an experience of movement,” he says.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2021

Each day, I could feel more layers of self-definition drop away like old clothes.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2020

Practically no one else sees him, sometimes Sherrie, though even she has begun to distance herself, drop away.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee