Sentence examples for but a dropped from inspiring English sources

The Northern Irishman's Masters quest was ruined on Saturday in reality but a dropped shot on the opening hole of round four seemed to emphasise his fate.

I finally realized that it's one thing to pick a string of beads up off the ground, but a dropped pie is a mess.

Spieth subsequently bogeyed the 10th, which barely registered with the crowds, but a dropped shot on the 11th combined with Willett's birdie three holes ahead prompted collective cries of "hang on".

Racing were now looking dominant as they upped the pace, but a dropped ball by Chabal gave Edinburgh the chance to reply and Denton showed amazing speed for a flanker to race 25 metres to score after a neat shimmy.

But a dropped pass on first down by Thomas Duarte killed the drive and forced UCLA into intentionally taking a safety.

But a player drop-kicking a conversion because he suspected his team-mate hadn't scored?

Such a smattering of artificial additions, however, represents but a drop in the ocean.

One day he says the oil is but a drop in a big ocean.

That's 9 percent more of these procedures than in 2009, but a drop of 47 percent since 2000.

But a drop in the price of oil hit energy companies.

Global public finance is but a drop in the ocean of what is needed.