Sentence examples for dropped toward from inspiring English sources

As the frequency of Israeli incursions has increased, the Palestinian resistance has dropped toward nothing in many areas.

LAST year, as interest rates dropped toward record lows and the office market went limp, New Jersey real estate investors pursued retailing properties with intense interest.

There was actually a college football game on Thursday night as well, although Arizona and Arizona State's punters might hope you missed that one, sort of the way they missed a few balls dropped toward their feet.

The seat belt sign was on when the plane, with 147 people on board, began to shake and then dropped toward the Pacific about an hour southwest of San Francisco.

One method of torture used in Florentine jails during the glorious days of the Renaissance was the strappado: a prisoner was hoisted into the air by a rope attached to his wrists, which had been tied behind his back, and then suddenly dropped toward the floor as many times as it took to get him to confess.

Mr. Gallagher said there was a simple reason that tax bills in Jersey City had dropped toward the end of the last fiscal year: the city had sent out its earlier tax bills expecting less money from the state, then received an unexpected windfall.

At the end of his dream, he began to fall, dropping toward a dead tree, and then he awakened.

As the fighter screamed through the turn, he continued to fall, dropping toward the clouds at 3,000 feet.

As the sun began to drop toward the horizon, the poles sprouted shadows and the tips sparkled as if stars were perched on them.

Precipitation is light and infrequent, but the state's eastern corner, which drops toward the Gulf of Mexico's coastal plain, is generally humid.

Another pathogen, called the chestnut bunt, infects plants as the thermometer drops toward freezing, but the infection may not be lethal without persistent snow cover.