droop

Its floppy feathers droop from the ceiling and stretch out across the ground, dominating the gallery after seeming to have deflated midflight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Possible symptoms include face weakness, where one side of the face might droop, arm weakness and speech problems.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

In the spring, maroon flowers droop from the branches.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024

The dancers droop and drag when they’re alone, anxiously turning in on themselves as though they might like to disappear entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

Cullen looks across the table at Neil and then over at Russell, whose jaw is beginning to droop strangely.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

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

“Can you smile for me?” the paramedic asks, and notes that only the left corner of the man’s mouth curls upward when he tries; the right droops into a frown.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

“He speaks as fluently as ever, but his lower lip droops on one side. The ulnar nerve in his left hand was badly damaged.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

In the photo, she’s thinner, and her face droops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

Maybe she’s has a scar, or one eyelid droops, or her nose is a mottled purple.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

The lodging business took a hit when travel activity drooped during the pandemic, while soaring operating costs and plunging occupancy rates caused hundreds of senior housing facilities to close.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Within days her eyelid had drooped and swelled.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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

He stayed down several minutes before walking slowly from the field to the injury tent with his shoulder drooped.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023

My father stopped watering the azalea bushes along the front walk, and they drooped and began to die.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

Misuse of Botox can cause drooping eyelids, blurred vision, headaches and, in rare cases, respiratory failure or paralysis.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

Boo fluttered to the ground, his wings drooping in exhaustion.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi