Sentence examples for use to drop from inspiring English sources

The service had an airplane it had hoped to use to drop aerial bombs of water on fires, but the technology was not sufficiently advanced.

Instead of piling nets, they load rocks which they will use to drop a line tens of metres below the swelling waves.

The Vietnamese already have a number of fighter-bomber training planes that could be armed for combat, plus some C47 two-engine transports they could use to drop troops and to haul equipment.

Ms. Fernandez is talking about emoji, which are the more elaborate cousins of emoticons — those creative combinations of colons, parentheses and other punctuation that people use to drop a facial expression into a text message or e-mail.

A Field Notes column last Sunday ("Bridal Hunger Games") reported on some diets that brides use to drop 15 or 20 pounds before their weddings: Weight Watchers and a personal fitness trainer, juice cleanses, the Dukan diet, diet pills, hormone shots and, new to the United States, a feeding tube diet.

The company also produces the pressurized tank system that C-130s use to drop retardant.

Pablo Neruda used to drop by unannounced.

"Hitler used to drop leaflets over our town.

Joey Arias and Kim Hastreiter, the editor of Paper, used to drop by.

You used to drop the topic and move on.

It's the kind of bathos-pathos-thanatos manoeuvre that Saul Bellow used to drop.