Sentence examples for be dropped over from inspiring English sources

The dome, known as a "capping stack", would be dropped over any stricken wellhead.

"Space" is an abstraction, "a template which can be dropped over any point on the earth's surface".

A spokesman for U.S. Foodservice said vendors were reviewed annually, and could be dropped over concerns like poor quality, inability to handle large accounts, lack of promotional support and "poor profitability".

In Washington, Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, the Pentagon spokesman, said that aircraft carrying food to be dropped over the rugged territory would likely have escort planes that could fire on antiaircraft emplacements.

On Tuesday 24 November 1863, the Harrisburg Patriot & Union published a lengthy editorial in which it lamented "the silly remarks of the President" and said: "… for the credit of the nation we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall be no more repeated or thought of".

The Pentagon said seven million leaflets would be dropped over Mosul in the coming 48 hours advising civilians to stay in their homes and advising them on how to stay as safe as possible in the course of the looming battle.

In fact, he lasted a short spell in Michael Howard's shadow cabinet before being dropped over a bit of sharp practice.

They would be using carbon copies of the weapon that was dropped over Nagasaki.

"Twenty-five of those bombs have been dropped over the last month.

At 8.15am on 6 August, Little Boy was dropped over Hiroshima.

Long gone are the days when huge amounts of the insecticide DDT were dropped over wide areas.