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drop behind
verb as in hang back
Example Sentences
It’s only when we pay for it that we tend to leave no drop behind.
Norris briefly dropped behind Verstappen - who was ordered to give the place back because he had gained it by going off the track.
Airborne troops were dropped behind enemy lines in the early hours of the day ahead of the main attack.
He was dropped behind enemy lines near Genoa, tasked with finding Italian dictator Mussolini who by then had been captured by partisans.
And from that vantage, telescopes can stare at the same patch of sky indefinitely because it never drops behind the horizon.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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