Sentence examples for penny dropping from inspiring English sources
But he still says it was the loudest clunk of a penny dropping he ever experienced.
Moments that, if they reached the eyes of enough Sandys out there, might have led to, well, if not quite an awakening then maybe some penny dropping.
Their tax-free charitable donations are running out, and if these polls could be converted into one sound, it might be the thud of a gigantic penny dropping (in this case, on to David Cameron's cunningly concealed bald spot).
"So how," asks Watson, the penny dropping with an audible clang, "could it have been painted in the 1640s?" This bit of razzle-dazzle deduction may be fictional (the Van Buren supernova doesn't actually exist) but the technique that Sherlock used to date the painting is most definitely real.
It is fascinating but appalling to observe such differences being highlighted in complex transcriptional profiling experiments [ 39] without the penny dropping!
Eventually the penny dropped.
Belatedly, the penny dropped.
Eventually, the penny dropped.
