Sentence examples for dropped towards from inspiring English sources

The British government made large-scale intervention in markets as the pound dropped towards DM2.77.

He let the clutch slip and the Mercedes dropped towards the photographer.

A roaring log fire on a summer night might be considered an indulgence, but as the temperature dropped towards single figures it seemed more like a necessity.

This was a time before digital photography, so images were taken on photographic film in the satellite and then dropped towards the Earth where planes would pluck it from the air.

There ought to have been little danger when Hibs goalkeeper Mark Oxley sent a long kick upfield, but Arnold Peralta was out of position and panicked as the ball dropped towards him.

The example everyone's looking at is deals site group Groupon, which went public at $17.8 billion, but has dropped towards $10 billion recently (although it's been climbing back up in the last couple days).

But it's not the realm of shuttles and space stations, either--when one exits a vehicle in orbit, one floats along with it, falling endlessly AROUND the Earth in an orbit of one's own, one doesn't suddenly drop TOWARDS the Earth as we see the figure in these photographs doing.

The ball is no longer dropping towards you, it is hurtling as if fired from a supergun.

Though the murder rate showed signs of dropping towards the end of last year, 2011 has been grim so far.

For Bayer what followed took on a horrible inevitability once the ball was allowed to drop towards Zidane's left foot.

From the hilltop site of Bere Alston with its railway station for Plymouth, narrow ways once frequented by miners and market gardeners drop towards the Tamar.