Sentence examples for words dropped from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "words dropped" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means that certain words have been left out or omitted from a sentence. Example: In her speech, the politician made a few grammar mistakes and had to go back and correct some words dropped during her delivery.

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Sometimes, it's a matter of just one or two words, dropped casually into conversations, or scattered around visual descriptions.

The words "Puerto Rican" stood out from the rest; they seemed to spring naturally from his mouth, whereas the English words dropped out like stillborns.

Millions of people, in other words, dropped out of Christianity and embraced atheism or agnosticism — surely a more ominous trend than the gender or sexuality of any of them.

The boss calls the home office and instead gets the usual clipped words, dropped calls, and cell hell.

Rather, it draws on being part of a generation of kids who were raised partly or wholly by their grandparents, and who have absorbed words dropped by the generation immediately above them, such as "balderdash," "nincompoop" and "twit".

Four months later, on the evening before Walker, in his own words, "dropped the bomb" on teachers, snowplow drivers and other public-sector workers; he met with his cabinet and, holding up a photo of Reagan, told them this was his Ronald Reagan moment.

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"You could feel the words dropping out of his mouth.

Sorry to have kept you waiting," were his first words, dropping the stiffer "comrades" of his predecessor.

I could hear their words dropping slightly earlier, or later, than my words, or a note would be longer, or shorter, or sometimes entirely different.

The writing of Ernest Hemingway affected me a lot; there is something about that simple way of writing without adjectives, where words drop like stones in the sentence.

In other words, dropping a net on a FAD is some 230 times more harmful to the general fish population than dropping a net on a school of dolphins and contributes more to the decline of the yellowfin.

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