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drop behind
verb as in hang back
Example Sentences
Best Seat in the House: Near the windows at sunset to see the sun drop behind Mount Fuji.
She tried to drop behind; but the team had an infinite capacity for loitering.
When we got into action they would drop behind, and we used them to send messages back to camp.
Fastnet Rock lighthouse on the right, telling the mariner of half-sunken rocks, and Cape Clear on the left, soon drop behind.
But, true enough, before he had covered a quarter of a mile he saw the animal he had fired at begin to drop behind the others.
"Now, drop behind," she said to him, as Edward seated himself by her side.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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