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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

"There is a limit to how much droop you can allow," says Simon Hogg, a consultant and professor emeritus at Durham University.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

In the spring, maroon flowers droop from the branches.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024

Achieving high-efficiency green emission has been difficult with traditional hexagonal III-nitride even with increasing the indium content -- a costly element required for green emission -- which leads to higher defect densities and efficiency droop.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024

She left, and I watched TV until dark, and then, when my eyelids were starting to droop, Marta showed me my bed.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

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

His sandy mustache droops on either side of his mouth, and despite his relative youth, his movements as he sits are slow and deliberate.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Mark's speech started to go, and one side of his face drooped - classic stroke symptoms.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025

Jackie, who turns 13 this spring, puffed up her feathers, drooped her wings, bore down and released her latest egg, according to the group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

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

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

But her skin had drooped, so it hung down in a grouchy look, and sometimes it was hard to see the smile underneath.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

At Chiswick, staff were watering drooping camellias and lilacs, shrubs that normally thrive in sun.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

The shot of the battered Big Baby, one eyelid drooping, sitting on a swing gazing at the full moon, is far more chilling than anything in the “M3GAN” movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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

According to the exhibition catalog, “Aso Oke” was inspired by the handwoven openwork fabric of Nigeria’s Yoruba people, as well as the drooping fila gobi ceremonial cap worn by Yoruba men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

I could see his eyes drooping as I spoke, and within a matter of minutes he was sound asleep.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson