Sentence examples for drops to explain from inspiring English sources

Other informal phrases include "a pretty penny" to define a considerable sum of money, and "when the penny drops" to explain that somebody has finally understood something.

Claire Cain Miller, a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times, drops in to explain Google's latest angle for getting into the living room.

But the movie, directed by Clarence Badger, has considerably period charm (even if it does include a scene in which the author Elinor Glyn drops by to explain the concept of It, a totally un-self-conscious sex appeal, to the characters).

"We try to educate our students, which has been quite successful because three years ago we had 220 mattress covers ruined, but this year that's dropped to 147," explained Joe.

"From January 3 we will start reductions at 30% and then three to five days later drop to 50%," explains Axel Somers, buyer for the hip Princess Blue boutique.

He mentions Young not to name-drop, but to explain why Young's decision-making on a particular play in 1998, against a particular defense, was shrewd.

Bohr and Wheeler set to work applying the liquid drop model to explain the mechanism of nuclear fission.

In 1939 he teamed up with Bohr to write a series of papers using the liquid drop model to explain the mechanism of fission.

Fenlon started with Eoin Doyle and Leigh Griffiths up front, with Garry O'Connor dropped to the bench but explained that the Scotland international would still play a big part in the run-in to the end of the season.

A four factor solution was then analyzed; however, many of the items had loading scores less than 0.4 and the percent variance explained dropped to 37.4%%.

A simple model based on the ohmic potential drop is proposed to explain the difference between the critical pitting and protection potentials.