Sentence examples for dropped on ground from inspiring English sources

Always points true north when dropped on ground.

Swiss aircraft were armed only with carbines and flechettes, ineffective pointed iron spikes that were to be dropped on ground targets.

Finally, in 2007, the scheme, the development of which had already cost around £20m, was dropped on grounds of cost.

He was released on a bail, and these charges were later dropped on grounds of immunity, which was still applicable at the time when the act was committed.

4. The evangelical anti-torture movement is divisive within the Christian community and should be dropped on grounds of Christian unity; besides, there are far more important concerns facing us. 5.

At a pretrial conference Tuesday, Commissioner Sam Bubrick set Coleman's trial for Sept. 19 after denying a request by her attorney, Johnnie Cochran, that the felony charge be dropped on grounds of insufficient evidence.

Though initially used for aerial reconnaissance, aircraft were soon fitted with machine guns to shoot at other aircraft and with bombs to drop on ground targets; military aircraft with these types of missions and armaments became known, respectively, as fighters and bombers.

One got crushed by books in a backpack, and one got dropped on the ground while a girl was running for the bus.

Has it dropped on the ground recently or has it been on the ground for some time?

"In France maybe the barrier would have been dropped on the ground," he said.

(b) After a piece of candy dropped on the ground and became covered with ants, I thought, Those ants are hard at work.