Sentence examples for dropped beneath from inspiring English sources

February frosts dropped beneath minus seven and the trees were blighted.

Auster suggests that he himself sometimes feels he has dropped beneath the world's sightline.

The sun had dropped beneath the rooflines; against the darkening sky, a crane was lowering something onto a roof.

As I cut up through a steep field of gorse to reach the 410m top of Bolus, the sun dropped beneath the low cloud and filled the cleft between sea and sky with golden light.

According to Diane Ragsdale, associate programme officer of the US-based Andrew W Mellon Foundation, a particular problem for American arts organisations is the hits taken by endowments, which are failing to yield income - or are actually "underwater", meaning their current value has dropped beneath their historical value.

To make her point, Erica told me that she continues to champion the wonderful Canadian novelist Robertson Davies who has dropped beneath the literary radar since he died in 1985.

Under the current system, they simply drop beneath the surface of ordinary life.

— On Dec. 26, 1862, thirty-eight doomed Dakota Indians wailed and danced atop the gallows, waiting for the trapdoors to drop beneath them.

He saw the instrument panel dropping beneath his feet, then the aircraft falling with an empty cockpit, then the plane small and starting to tilt forward.

Furthermore, if the bus drops beneath 50mph the bomb goes off, therefore trapping the bus and its occupants in perpetual motion (well, until the petrol runs out).

Mr. Stewart's voice is pretty damaged, too, sometimes dropping beneath the line of audibility as his longer set wore on, swerving away from high notes and turning to a wheeze.