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单词 droop
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Biff’s eyes were cold and staring, half-concealed by the cynical droop of his eyelids. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
His ears droop, his eyes close, and he shifts his weight so he’s resting one hind leg. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
But after a while my eyes started drooping and I almost passed out sitting up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z
It gathered on the oak leaves and drooped even those sturdy branches down. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z
Up close she could see one eye drooped and didn’t look in quite the same direction as the other. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
The corners of her smile droop a little. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
Suddenly, the robot arms freeze and make a funny DWEEP-DWEEP-DWEEEEEEEP sound as they droop down on the conveyor belt—six inches away from Tater's crate. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
She drove her bread to the bottom of the container and scooped up a drooping, goopy mound of it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
The bird’s head drooped backward and was rolling from side to side. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Dudley gets enough, don’t you, son: Dudley, who was so large his bottom drooped over either side of the kitchen chair, grinned and turned to Harry. “Pass the frying pan.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
Not to mention the drooping redwoods, I think, looking up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z
When they finally got the shell onto the dock, the boys trooped back onto the Manhattan, their serge coats soggy and their straw hats starting to droop, and waited for the formal disembarking. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Boo fluttered to the ground, his wings drooping in exhaustion. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
They began to pick up small, faded black stones with white stripes running around them, stuffing them into their pockets so that they drooped on either side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
She smiled a cap-toothed smile, and I noticed the right side of her mouth drooping a little. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Celia’s remaining breast droops by her elbow, the indifferent nipple facing downward. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Silas walked under the table, his tail still drooping from his defeat by the squirrel. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I stood there with my arms outstretched like branches and my head drooping in the breeze. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z
Some of the rice heads drooped right over into the water. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z
Arya let her head droop, only half aware of what was going on around her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
She watched the outline of the mango trees in the next yard; some of them had fruit drooping down like heavy earrings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Zero's face looked like a jack-o'-lantern that had been left out too many days past Halloween—half rotten, with sunken eyes and a drooping smile. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z
On the raised part of the near end Hazel was crouching, his ears drooping on either side of his head and his flattened fur completely black with rain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
His eyes widened, his ears and body drooped, and his tail went between his legs. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Hodor walked with one eye frozen shut, his thick brown beard a tangle of hoarfrost, icicles drooping from the ends of his bushy mustache. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
The swelling had gone down, but my left eye bulged, half my hair was gone, and my mouth drooped to one side. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
He sat drooping for a moment, collecting the powers of duty and dignity, then spoke from the shade of his hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Fenoglio’s head drooped as if Capricorn had broken his neck with nothing but a few softly spoken words. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
The sheets had drooped from their hospital corners; they wilted onto the floor. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
In his mother's room, playing with the newborn little sister and with a face that drooped with innocence, he found José Arcadio. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
He’s dressed in big, drooping pants that show his underwear. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
The motion of the bus soon made your eyelids droop. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Grandma nudged Mary Alice, who stood there in the big apron looking drooped and damaged. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
The drawing was still there, propped up against her neat stack of books, one corner drooping from the weight of a paper clip. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
His mouth drooped like a hound dog, and his expression was more worried than scary. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z
How queer he looked with his long poker face, and his drooping mandarin moustache. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
She also had Finn curled up beside her, with his head drooping against her arm—he’d fallen asleep an hour ago. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
The edges of Rabiya’s mouth droop, and her eyes start to fill up. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
The latter hadn’t said a word since Thomas had entered the room; he just sat there, drooped in his chair, looking like he hadn’t slept in a week. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Like the mass of cables drooping behind a desk, the conceptual connections from one sentence to another have a tendency to get gnarled up in a big, snaggly tangle. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
The eyelid is injured and might droop forever. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
His face droops a bit, and I can't help but laugh. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
Each painted demon had gangly arms with razor-sharp nails drooping down from hunched shoulders. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
The front, including a drooping porch, jutted precariously into the air, supported by tall, spindly cinder-block pillars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z
He was wearing an unusually battered fedora—the brim drooping, the crown riddled with moth holes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
Maybe she’s has a scar, or one eyelid droops, or her nose is a mottled purple. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
It was the last of the regiment’s stay in Meryton, and all the young ladies in the neighbourhood were drooping apace. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z
Grandma said we weren’t allowed to get up from the table until we finished our food, so I’d sit there for hours upon hours until I started nodding off, my head drooping into the plate. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
He was huffing and puffing when he reached the police car, and drooped wearily across the hood. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her lips were flat and drooping, as though they were too heavy to hold up, and her cheeks were sallow and dull. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
Dark palm leaves were splayed like drooping combs against the monsoon sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
I waited until I couldn’t hear her, until I was able to move my heavy limbs and drooping head. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z
He came up to my chest, had muscles that would put a Westlake Academy football player to shame, and now that he was standing up, one of his ears drooped. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
Constance nodded a few times in a friendly way—until the nodding grew sleepy and her eyelids drooped. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
Pale green flags drooped from fire - squat comer towers, each emblazoned with a shoal of silvery fish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
“No, Colonel, I’m afraid they’re right,” Milo said, with his head drooping again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Eyes closed, head drooping on my chin, my mind flashes with pictures. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z
My eyelids were drooping when I heard it. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
I looked at Jasper who was standing by my feet with ears drooping and sad reproachful eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
It was mostly backless, with excess material that drooped just above my waist. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
A look of dejection crossed my mother’s face, and her bony shoulders drooped in resignation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
They laughed again, reclining against the wall, smoking, the lids of their eyes drooped softly against the sun. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
My mother gives me a cup of chamomile tea with a dose of sleep syrup, and my eyelids begin to droop immediately. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
I sketch a willow tree drooping into the water. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z
As she fought to subdue me, her hands clamped around my neck, I sunk my teeth into the nipple of her drooping breast. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
I cried inwardly, as the night lingered and lingered—as my bleeding patient drooped, moaned, sickened: and neither day nor aid arrived. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
His left eyelid drooped over his empty socket in an immutable, monstrous wink. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Their purple-hooded yellow faces began to droop in the sun, so I shielded them with my other hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
Ranofer’s eyelids were drooping and his head nodding when he heard the upper door suddenly open and footsteps come down the stairs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
Then, last of all, she pulled down over her ears a blue straw hat with a drooping, exhausted brim. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then he scratched his neck and settled down in his former drooping position. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Only a single lamp burned, and as midnight drew on, the glads drooped in their pitchers. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
His face was as thin as a greyhound’s, with a long nose above a drooping mustache. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
It may have been my imagination, but it felt like Kasusu was drooping in my hand. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
The khal's mouth twisted in a frown beneath the droop of his long mustachio. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
In the mirror, I find a drooping and smudged version of myself. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
He had a little fleshy knob on the center of his upper lip that drooped down over his lower lip in a sort of effeminate pout—the kind that children who suck their thumbs develop. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dark chords from the organ slip into the night, turning our shoes into concrete blocks and pulling down our faces until we look like trees drooping with black leaves. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z
He looked no one full in the face and his head drooped down to one side like a sick animal’s. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
My shoulders droop, and my feet feel like lead. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
Then his fists went down, his shoulders drooped, his voice whined: “What’s the matter with you?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z
Her shoulders drooped and she hugged her knees to her chest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
Her big breasts drooped a lot, and her belly had gotten pretty plump, but her legs were strong and lovely. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
His mustache drooped like the whiskers of a catfish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
Scabbers was looking thinner than usual, and there was a definite droop to his whiskers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z
Finally the book slipped from her fingers, and her eyelids drooped. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
They were drooping and bending from the weight of the frozen sleet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s warm in here, but she got a thick brown sweater drooped around her shoulders. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
His navel had once jutted out, I could tell, but now it looked like a wrinkled eggplant, drooping. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
Helen’s head, always drooping, sank a little lower as she finished this sentence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
Not a word did she say, however, till her mother found her in tears one day, and insisted on knowing what the matter was, for Meg’s drooping spirits had not escaped her observation. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because that smell...the way the words drooped...I pressed my fingers against the Psi symbol and they came away sticky. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
His sandy mustache droops on either side of his mouth, and despite his relative youth, his movements as he sits are slow and deliberate. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
And then, his shoulders slumping and his mouth drooping, Baugi climbed down the mountain and trudged off home, to his own hearth and his own hall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z
I saw the drooping neckline of the Baltimore Orioles sweatshirt we had bought from the Goodwill store and that he wore around the house, the field of dark stubble along his jaw. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
Jethro nodded and sat quietly staring into the fire for a long time, listening to the music of the strings until his eyes grew heavy and his shoulders began to droop. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
He turns to me with a smirk, but the corners of his mouth droop when he sees the look on my face. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
He had a camel’s head, drooping on its neck, with all the activity in the cheeks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
An elderly fellow in a trilby, overalls and armband, with drooping jowls like a bulldog’s, detached himself and demanded to see her identity card. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
Laila gave a grimacing nod, and her head drooped to one side. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
He reads it and his head droops almost to his knees. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
His lip droops a little, and I realize that even though I hear his voice, words aren’t coming out of his mouth. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z
In his wake came another man, a tall, stooped figure with a dark cloak folded about him like drooping wings. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
He appeared to be half-alert at best— his eyelids drooped, his mouth hung open. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
She tensed the muscles in her neck until every tendon rose to the surface beneath her skin, like strings under a drooping tent. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
I stay with him until the moon has set and my eyes are drooping and Schillinger takes over at the window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z
Her eyes rolled back, flashing white in the second it took for her eyelids to droop down. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
He stared deep into the deadly eyes, his lids began to droop heavily…. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
The photo droops at one edge, so I smooth it down. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
Pas shoulders droop low as he holds his palms together in a gesture of greeting. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her eyes are bored, her head droops forward, the way it has been put. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
A gust of wind blew and parted the drooping branches of the weeping willow like a curtain, and Mariam caught a glimpse of what was beneath the tree: the straight-backed chair, overturned. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
The insane smile lit his features once more, and his head drooped onto his shoulder as Winky wailed and sobbed at his side. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
Ma reaches up to plump her snowy halo of hair, which is starting to droop a bit. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z
My body sinks into the mattress, and my eyelids droop shut. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
With his face in his hands and his handkerchief headgear drooping low over his brow, Zooey sat at Seymour’s old desk, inert, but not asleep, for a good twenty minutes. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z
Up close, I notice that Joon’s eyes are bloodshot, his eyelids heavy and drooping. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z
I could see the exhaustion in the angle of his body, in the sideways droop of his head and the half-collapsed heaviness with which he was resting against the wooden railing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
He was lying in a bower made by a living tree with branches laced and drooping to the ground; his bed was of fern and grass, deep and soft and strangely fragrant. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z
His chest heaved and his body seemed to droop. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
The eyelid of his normal eye was drooping, giving his face an even more lopsided appearance than usual. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
Then she had to bring some of the fear back, so that they would stay awake and keep walking though they drooped with sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Human” is feathers flattened, eyes wide, neck pulled in, wings drooped to fly. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
His arms still stretched out wide for a hug, but his left one drooped a little. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
He’d just felt his eyelids droop when Chuck ruined his peace and quiet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Pipkin sat trembling under a fern, his ears drooping on either side of his head. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her cheeks drooped toward her eyes and her hair pointed straight toward the ground, making her look like a dangling troll doll. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z
Chestnutt’s ears drooped so low they covered her eyes, and Gum Baby looked confused. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
Then the seven outlined heads in the front pews drooped and the vicar removed his tortoiseshell glasses, lifted his chin and with eyes closed addressed the heavenly powers in his weary, sorrowful singsong. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
My shoulders droop and a nasty chill spills down my back. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
I swear he understood me because his ears drooped and he turned away. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
“What did you say? I—” His eyelids drooped. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
He had thin lips and his mouth drooped, giving him the haggard appearance of a much older man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
She lost all interest in the lusty thrashing in the wrought-iron bed, her waist swelled rapidly, and her breasts drooped with the weight of the new life that was growing inside her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Sorrows spun in a slow circle, faces concealed beneath their drooping hoods, their glowing robes swaying slightly in the breeze. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
Martin was round all over; his cheeks drooped and his uniform shirt might have been a size too small, but he hadn’t started growing like the other kids in his cabin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
He was what the Mexicans called a chongo or “droop horn.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had a drooping, saggy mustache and black hair that fell below the neck. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Manchee jumps out with a waxy squirrel drooping in his mouth, bigger and browner than the ones from the swamp. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z
Sometimes I’m afraid my face is going to sag with all this sorrow and that my mouth is going to permanently droop at the corners. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
I could see his eyes drooping as I spoke, and within a matter of minutes he was sound asleep. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
His tail drooped into my front shirt pocket. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z
On their heels, mounted, trotted the Anti-Horse-Thief Society members done up as old-time bounty hunters in big hats and drooping mustaches. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
Chubs was trailing behind us, his eyes hidden as the drooping sunlight caught his glasses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
There were so many questions swirling around in Ophie’s mind, but it was the loudest one that caused Ophie’s shoulders to droop and dread to weigh heavily in her belly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Images of forest animals amongst drooping trees dotted the large expanse. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
The shoulders drooped onto my arms a bit, and the sleeves hung past my wrists, but it felt nice. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z
The drapes were drawn, but he could see the shape of carved bedposts, and the droop of the velvet canopy over his head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
‘And crosses for dinners and straight lines for the whiskey. Let me see—’ Brannon rubbed his nose and his eyelids drooped down. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
He had a big drooping moustache and he wore a small black bowler-hat. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
A flat nose and a drooping mouth gave him a cruel look, and one of his ears was missing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
When she was angry her eyelids drooped halfway down over her pupils, giving her a baleful aspect. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her hair was carelessly gathered up and tied with a bow that drooped sadly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z
Temp, whose antennas had drooped down over his head, reached out and touched Gregor with a feeler. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
He crossed his limp wrists in his lap and hardly seemed to be breathing as he sat with his gaze drooping toward the floor in acquiescent defeat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Both boys' heads drooped, their faces in danger of being washed in their soup. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
Archie had that dreamy look again and his lower lip drooped. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her pretty mouth had a sulky droop, and the long fringe of lashes barely hid the envy and rebellion in her blue eyes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
Higher up, near where the old fishing nets drooped down from the rafters, the surface of the sea had been depicted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
The roar of lorry engines would be suddenly cut, then his neck muscles relaxed, his head drooped, and he would wake with a start and a swerve to his step. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
When Martin comes back to join me, the droop in his posture brings tears to my eyes for the first time. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
The driver was an oldish man with a thick black drooping moustache. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z
She makes the most of what she has, filling the window nook with houseplants of all kinds, a bonsai weeping willow, a towering ficus with drooping fronds, a fiddle-leaf fig. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
One of the chromosomes wasn’t sticking to the Velcro very well, so it drooped a little. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
I manage to keep my smile from drooping. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z
They were mostly men from Osskil, speaking not the Hardic tongue of the Archipelago but a dialect of their own, and they were dour men, pale-skinned with black drooping mustaches and lank hair. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z
The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearances he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
The eyes shrink back as the hand comes, then they lose their stare, the eyelids droop lower, the tension is past. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
His head was drooping feebly now, and his hands were propped on the ground to keep him from collapsing. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
The remembrance seemed for a while to overpower her, and she drooped and would have sunk down but for her husband’s sustaining arm. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
Their clothes clung to them like old skin, translucent and drooping. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
Many were Dothraki horselords, big men with red- brown skin, their drooping mustachios bound in metal rings, their black hair oiled and braided and hung with bells. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
A badminton net drooped over the threadbare lawn, that was it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
They listened with their whiskers drooping and their ears flat against their heads. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z
His eyes flicked to hers, and his chin drooped in a barely detectible nod. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
The frost has made some leaves wilt, droop. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
And as he did so a great fear fell on all, defender and foe alike; and the hands of men drooped to their sides, and no bow sang. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z
As I might have expected, my shoes came off in the suction of mud and water, and I tramped after my friend in my drooping socks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z
She saw an old woman wasting handfuls of rice, tossing it at passersby, a drooping, toothless smile on her face. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
A vase of awkwardly arranged hibiscus, already drooping, stood on Chacko’s table. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Because the ivy in the front hall needs a half cup of water every other day or it droops. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
He opened his eyes, reddened and with drooping lids. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
A clump of banana trees drooped in the yard. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
His left eyelid, which still droops slightly from the assault, pulses and twitches. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
He made an exasperated noise, his shoulders drooping a little. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
I change into the yellow robe in my bedroom and make sure the quarters I sewed into the pockets aren’t making them droop. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z
It was the saddest-looking flag I’d ever seen, standing in the corner, its stars and stripes drooping down as if they had never known a proud moment. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
The blouse she was wearing drooped over her shoulders, and there was a gaping space between her neck and the collar. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
She sat by the nightstand, her hat still on her head, its feather drooping, and her black Bible in her lap. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z
Her head drooped, and when she finally found the strength to lift her eyes to mine, I could see she knew what I’d said was true. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Now she drooped, like someone had sucked air out of her. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
My father stopped watering the azalea bushes along the front walk, and they drooped and began to die. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z
There were no houses or buildings as far as I could see, only wheat-colored fields patchy with dirt and cracked wooden telephone poles with drooping black wires strung between them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
His shoulders still drooped, and he still wore no shoes nor shirt, but he seemed a little less sad. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Their shoulders drooped even as they laughed, and when they put their hands on their hips in a show of jauntiness, the palms slipped the thighs as if the pants were waxed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her hair was gold and lovely; wide-set hazel eyes with upper lids that drooped made her look mysteriously sleepy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
The patches of mold disappeared from the tree trunks, and the drooping plants rose upright, their leaves turning bright emerald as they basked in the blossom's light. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
Even the cowlicks in Finn’s hair seemed to droop. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
Her head drooped and she closed her eyes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
His eyes rested in puffy little hammocks of flesh and his mouth drooped with discontent. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z
She left, and I watched TV until dark, and then, when my eyelids were starting to droop, Marta showed me my bed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
She bent over, making her shoulders droop, bending her back in the posture of an old woman. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
His head was drooping and he shook himself again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
Her tongue was coated white, and her eyelids drooped. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z
Kainene used to say their mother’s breasts did not dry up at all, that their mother had given them to a nursing aunt only to save her own breasts from drooping. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Their swollen abdomens seemed to glow with an evil, slow-murdering phosphorescence; their antennae drooped like wilted lettuce. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
When I finally coaxed her to look, I felt her shoulders jerk under my hands—saw her eyes go huge and bright, only to droop again a moment later. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z
Her own cheeks had gone pale; her lids drooped over her eyes; she held her head up in her hand. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
The branches drooped down at them, heavy with soft, dark green needles. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
Her wrapper was tied low, exposing the tops of drooping breasts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
On the other side of the stream the Wood transformed into the dark forest she had known as a child: peeling, soft brown bark on the trees, and leaves like drooping feathers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Enrique was a few feet in front of him, clutching his left arm, his face drooping and tired. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Ear drooped over, a bowl of soybean stew on the table, and Eye lay on the sofa with his lids at half-mast. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
The bedroom was empty, and Redemption sighed as he looked around, his shoulders drooping. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
A cloudiness in the eye or a droop to a shoulder. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
After a while, I hear his breathing grow steady and see his head droop, and I know he’s fallen asleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z
The tree branches are dusted in white and drooping. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
Other times, Kim returns with drooping shoulders and a scowl on his face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
My head drooped forward and came to rest on the stranger's damp cloak. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
Its long ears drooped and its head hung low as it became thinner and thinner. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z
This animal’s eyelids had closed down slightly, and they drooped, so that the iris had become a squinting oval. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It looked like Sherlock Holmes’s pipe, curved and drooping from her lips. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
One of the leaves that was falling over—yellowed, dying, drooping like a waterslide that nobody’s allowed on—has pumped up a little, is climbing to the window. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z
Red velvet ribbons were tied in prettily drooping bows around the balusters of the central staircase and great urns of scarlet poinsettia flanked the doorways. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
He whistled upward four times into his drooping yellow mustache and spurted away into the hills on the dented old green motorcycle he had purchased secondhand months before. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
“And, sir,” she said with warning, “it is drooping in the de- scendent.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Gourd leaves that yesterday drooped down like a hundred little half-closed umbrellas were now freshened with dew. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
“If that doesn’t work, pinch yourself hard the minute you feel your eyelids drooping.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z
His sparse hair was long and stringy; his nose drooped wearily above his upper lip, which in turn drooped toward his chin in a most mournful expression. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z
His eyes drooped but he formed the words silently with his lips. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
His gray, drooping face appeared to be made of something stiffer than ordinary skin; it rarely moved except for making the smile that was on it now. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Her head was drooping all the time now. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z
Craster wiped his drooping mouth with the back of a hairy hand 'Til taste your wine, Lord Crow, that I will. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Camila pulls away to look at me, pouting, her dark-brown hair practically drooping along with her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
His hood droops farther forward when he touches his forehead to his knees. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
Trees drooped in the unrelenting summer sun; grass and leaves dried out. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
I watch as his heavy eyelids droop and then close. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
I had replaced the drooping violets this morning with white and pink roses. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z
The crying woman was nursing her baby on a drooping breast. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Suddenly where Nico di Angelo had been standing was a potted plant about five feet tall, with drooping green leaves, tufts of silk, and half a dozen ripe yellow ears of corn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
She tried to recall Kapugen’s face—his dark eyes and the brows that drooped kindly. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
There was something sad and lonely in his eyes, in the way his mustache drooped over his frown. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z
She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother's laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
Turner let his head droop as they were crossing the bridge so he saw nothing of the duty sergeant’s ferocious gaze, though he felt its heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
I hated her weak neck, the way it did not support her head but let it droop; her head would fall backward. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
A pair of tall poles had been driven into the muddy ground in front of it, banners drooping from each staff. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Then a hummingbird careened around the corner of the house and plunged into the trumpet of the nearest lily drooping in the heat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
It wasn’t really a tune, but from the first note the beast’s eyes began to droop. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z
Conor felt his stomach sink, felt his whole body droop under a ton of extra weight. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z
You ran a hand over the dent and let your head droop forward. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
He was tall, commanding in stature, but upon looking closer, Koffi noted that his eyes were drooping with fatigue. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
The young man suddenly picked up one of Sybil’s wet feet, which were drooping over the end of the float, and kissed the arch. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
Ignatius cast a pink and blue and yellow eye over the side of the bed down past his mother’s hanging slip and drooping cotton stockings. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Presently his head drooped forward on the papers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sergio noticed his father’s eyelids drooping, and he watched his hand wander back, feeling for the doorframe. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z
Her head drooped forward into the puddle, the wisps of her blonde hair dabbling in it like tree roots in a bog, and I realized she was asleep. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
The slender branches went up about twenty feet and were heavy, drooping with clusters of bright red berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
Finally Brave Orchid’s children quit wandering and drooped on a railing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
Roses and peonies bloomed in the garden; tulips and lilies drooped gracefully in studio vases. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
With the aid of the marigolds the roses flourished; in the control beds they were sickly and drooping. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
The left side of her body droops and her dress slides off her shoulder. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
None of these dresses fits me very well; the hems droop, or the sleeves bunch up under my arms. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
A purplish-red scar coiled along the left side of his face, making the corner of his eye droop. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
She could only focus on his face as it wrinkled and withered in front of her eyes, his skin collapsing like the petals of a lily drooping at the end of the day. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
When you water a drooping and thirsty plant? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z
Laila examined Mariam’s drooping cheeks, the eyelids that sagged in tired folds, the deep lines that framed her mouth—she saw these things as though she too were looking at someone for the first time. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
“How can that be? It’s drooping. You must get plastic surgery and correct it.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her misshapen bosom drooped inside a coarse, homespun tunic. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
As she said it, she must have seen Moss’s face droop. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Up close she could see one eye drooped and didn’t look in quite the same direction as the other. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
“This is clearly a case for the Civil Liberties Union,” Ignatius observed, squeezing his mother’s drooping shoulder with the paw. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sometimes the ear would droop and the eye would close. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
He is kneeling on the street, on the edge of a gutter filled with still water, his head drooping between his shoulders. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
The left side of her mouth drooped like a rosebud gone too long without water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
Nina couldn’t quite make out the symbol, but the crowd bellowed, and the man’s shoulders drooped as a guard came forward to unlock his chains. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
“Thank you,” Shawna muttered, and her head drooped as she left the classroom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Then her head drooped, her eyelids closed, her hand started slipping, slipping, slipping away from the dark polished wood of the cradle. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
The normal, I understand, can see words my way only if they are adequately poetic: Poor Dan is in a droop. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mr. Pittluck, the math teacher, saw her head droop and called her to the front of the class. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
I can see it haunting her in the way her face droops. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z
He sailed a rough chopping sea above which clouds drooped and drifted in vast mournful veils. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z
His face was a copper mask, yet under the long black mustache, drooping beneath the weight of its gold rings, she thought she glimpsed the shadow of a smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
Her gardens are full of roses—sprawling, old tangled bushes, quite a few of them autumn-flowering damasks with their last flowers still nodding and drooping in the rain. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z
Mama, my eyes are drooping, I will finish when I can. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z
They haunted the laundry lines and pub doorways of Coal’s twisting lanes, drooping like wilted flowers, eyes flicking toward us and away again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
They wore robes of red and gilt paper, and the god had a scant, drooping moustache of real hair. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
The cheekbones were like the wings of a hawk soaring away from his broad nose; he wore a drooping thick mustache; the hairs were steel gray. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z
The feathered horns of the comical puffins drooped low, and Kapugen told her they seemed to be grieving with him. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
But then he realized it was drooping because the weight had been removed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z
Sweetie Pie stroked Winn-Dixie’s head so long and serious that his eyes drooped half closed and drool came out of the side of his mouth. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z
I remember how tall and straight and handsome he looked, with his high-crowned hat and his black mustaches drooping in cow-horn curves past the corners of his mouth. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
The boys cannot let their pants droop and their boxer shorts show. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Gurgi’s hands fell to his sides; his shoulders drooped; and he turned mournfully away. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z
Lee’s eyes opened wide and then drooped again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Marsh sedge grew there, pink, sweet-scented valerian and the drooping water avens. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z
Out it flies, delighting in its new-found freedom, its dark hooded beak and tiny head drooping like its sex between arching wings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
His left eyelid drooped over an empty socket. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
She marveled at how the girl’s eyes shone with worship, even in the mornings when her face drooped and her complexion was waxy from a night’s worth of walking the baby. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
Oily smoke hung above us like a net, drooping under the thatched roof. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
My eyelids droop and I consider walking out. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
My father sat at the edge of his recliner, his hands drooped over the armrests, his head bowed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
Captain Billy’s ferry, though much larger, drooped like an old waiting woman. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
My eyes drooped, and I felt sleep take hold of me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
It ought to have felt exhilarating, but the girl’s eyes had teared up and her face was drooping, and what satisfaction Mariam found from this outburst felt meager, somehow illicit. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
Her eyes were still drooped from sleep, and her pale brown hair stuck up all over her head like a squirrel’s nest on a winter branch. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z
The flowers on the mantelpiece were drooping, many of them dead. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
The princess's eyelids droop, and her mouth softens. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
Even Constance was unable to stop her eyelids drooping. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
She wavered from side to side, sometimes her head drooped, and her shoulders were not straight at all. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z
Painted eyes drooped sadly at the water level, as if the boat were about to fall asleep. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
The reading desk and its seat were made in one piece, and there the King himself sat drooping. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
She is middle-aged, with eyes that droop at the edges and a mouth held in a pucker. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Her breasts now drooped from having nursed their son for two years after he was born. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
His face would droop and he’d say, “You never know. You might be.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z
Then, a few seconds later, he saw Pond, whose head was drooping. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
His eyelids drooped, and not because he was tired. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
Gareth held the King’s hand tighter, and began to droop his head. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
They drooped a bit now, as I hadn't washed them in my three weeks at home. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
He walked with his shoulders hunched high and his mouth drooping down. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z
Around her neck I placed a garland of aromatic fennel stalks, their flat golden blooms woven with drooping columbines. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
Beyond it, drooping willow trees presided like mourning gods over a tiny churchyard. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z
Presently the gate clicked open, and there appeared a short, slender white woman with silver hair and slightly drooping shoulders. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her shoulders drooped, and she seemed to fold into herself, nothing like the woman who usually strutted around the kitchen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
Corkers was a charmer, a vast ungainly man with drooping bloodhound cheeks and filthy clothes. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
The not-so-great news: the sagging porch and drooping roof make it pretty clear that just waltzing in and finding the right room isn’t the smartest idea. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Muokelu was gaunt; her body was built for thickness and now, with so much weight loss, she drooped, as though she could no longer stand straight. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Sheep stared at us with big leaky eyes, their wool soggy and tails drooping. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
But though her windows didn’t shine and her curtains drooped with dust and nobody could of eaten off her floors, she kept the bed made, the dishes washed, and things in place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z
His spirits drooped suddenly a moment later, and he ran his hand nervously over his short, black, graying curls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Boys pride themselves on their drab clothing, their drooping socks, their smeared and inky skin: dirt, for them, is almost as good as wounds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Let one forget his reason for being, they’d all droop like tulips in a glass, each with their arms around the other. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
God, they’re ugly, with their plump white bodies and red heads and drooping wattles, which resemble inflamed scrotums, if she’s being honest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z
The sails drooped from the yards like stained drapes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
After a few more hours of navigating, Percy’s eyes started to droop. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
Dense clumps of yellow bamboo drooped into the river as though grieving in advance for what they knew was going to happen. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
But sometimes Wang Lung saw him come creeping home at dawn, panting and spent, and his great knotty shoulders drooping. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
On the plus side, the wide trunk and drooping branches completely shield us from the prying eyes of our parents. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
He was tall and skinny, with straw-colored hair, oversized jeans, a baggy T-shirt, and a drooping toga. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
"If it comes to that," said Aravis, "what about you drooping your head a bit more and arching your neck a bit less and trying to look less like a war-horse?" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z
His eyes drooped, his lids looked as though they had weights placed on them, but he smiled and said something that made Amaka laugh. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z
The right side is cracked and drooping like melting wax. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z
Harry Cat was lying on the shelf with his tail drooping over the edge, and Chester himself was relaxing in the matchbox. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
And the smaller oak and maple trees, which from Dr. Hyde’s classroom had been invisible beneath the more majestic pines, showed hints of an as- yet-thermally-unforeseeable fall: Their still-green leaves were beginning to droop. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z
Abbot Mortimer stood and put a wrinkled old paw lightly on the small head, right between the velvety ears, now drooping with shame. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
The sides of his mouth droop; his eyes are rimmed red. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z
I think of Carol’s mother in her twin set, her skeptical smile, Cordelia’s with her glasses on a chain and her vagueness, Grace’s and her hairpins and drooping apron. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
Knowing what signs to look for — drooped wings, strange droppings, issues with laying — and what might be causing it can save you heartache down the line. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z
His spirits drooped, there on the banks of the river. My Writing Education: A Time Line 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z
Each muscle, each flicker, each languid droop, the wide candid stare, project and adjust to her every word. An interview with Gloria Swanson: From the archive, 19 February 1969 2013-02-19T07:30:00Z
I noticed that the room temp bouquets were starting to droop a little, but not dramatically. How to stop your basil from wilting immediately 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z
But it would have taken more wit and clarity to keep this material from drooping as a musical. Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z
The wheel-running rats’ eyelids drooped, their teeth chattered and they began to shake and twitch—all signs of withdrawal. Exercising my demons 2012-10-14T13:00:00Z
It does not open with the big, sweeping gestures of an emotional outpouring, but with a fragile drooping line. Eugene Onegin: unchain my heart 2013-01-02T19:30:04Z
This time, the Flirt no sooner sees her ethereal rival than she, very funnily giving up the game without a moment’s further ado, droops all over in the Dandy’s arms. Dance Review: Eglevsky Ballet?s Rare ?? la Fran?aix? by Balanchine 2010-08-22T22:30:00Z
Then we did the famous Porter's scene and Mark explained "brewer's droop" to us. Shakespeare and me: Thea Sharrock 2012-06-30T23:05:28Z
My skepticism vanished at the end, when we found the astonishing Zontik, or “Umbrella,” waterfall — though to me the rock formation looked more like a bunch of giant mushrooms, drooping over a shallow cave. A Warm Welcome in the Caucasus Mountains 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z
A shoulder bag with drooping fringe completed the hippie de luxe, 1970s message. Special Report: From Ethnic to Elegant 2010-02-28T18:30:00Z
Her son, who suffered from alcoholism, droops dejectedly in the foreground, and her mother looks in from behind, age scarring her face like water scours canyons. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z
Quirky, complex, and occasionally thorny, the Partita ranges from delicate pointillist passages and drooping glissandi to explosive utterances and phrases that sound like birdsong. Anne-Sophie Mutter with Lambert Orkis: A night of perfection | Classical review 2013-03-04T17:52:30Z
In true Gordon style, the music tends violently percussive and extreme, relentless in its industrial repetitions, but with stark exceptions: a section of glassy harmonics, another of keening, drooping melancholy gestures. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z
Was that really me, hitting forehands and backhands with my racket drooping on its follow-through like water-starved vegetation and stiffly moving forward to drop flat-footed volleys into the net? 2010-02-05T06:22:00Z
But Mr. Joseph does not have the control over tone that is the hallmark of those models: His comedy wilts rather than blossoms in proximity to his tragedy, and his tragedy droops into bathos. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z
An all-female band wearing caps drooping long red feathers stood on the back of a dragon float. At Shanghai Disney Resort, Mulan, Mickey and Dumplings 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z
His own painting is small, white and green, and partly uses swine leather to show a drooping acacia leaf. Polish art student hangs own painting in museum 2012-01-04T13:59:10Z
The ordinary laws of the natural world erratically droop into surrealism. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z
Scraggly, drooping, wrinkled, half-dead: It’s not a new look for Halloween. Don’t dismiss clearance plants at the garden center. With a little love, they can flourish. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z
It was very affecting, his voice cracking and his hair drooping all over the keys, and within a couple of months he was booked to perform on Later… with Jools Holland. Tom Odell: 'Having your heart broken makes for good songs' 2013-03-24T00:06:37Z
If your heart droops whenever you spot a prematurely middle-aged kid wearing a Led Zeppelin T-shirt, you know this feeling. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z
Discussing this period, Bell’s smile drooped, and he turned contemplative. Kool & the Gang Get the Dance Floor Moving. Have They Gotten Their Due? 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z
One would droop while the other would pop open. Chef Sean Brock Puts Down the Bourbon and Begins a New Quest 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z
The drawing “Pizza Liberation,” 2017, in which the artist holds a drooping slice of pizza next to George Segal’s statues of the Gay Liberation Monument in the West Village, is irreverent, honest, and self-deprecating. Cleveland Triennial Is an Artistic Scavenger Hunt With Civic Pride 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z
Her eyelids lower as she nods off, drooping but not falling, before she recovers enough to announce, “Theseus, you must be deteriorating if you’re at the point where you’re hallucinating me as your spirit guide.” With “Labyrinth,” Mark Dendy Confronts His Demons 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z
He is a liminal, anachronistic presence with his Victorian hand gestures and melancholy droop. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z
More ominously, the ends of the branches of shrubs and trees will begin to droop and turn brown. Perspective | Fall is prime tree planting season, but what about next spring’s cicada eruption? 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z
Eilish’s expression droops, and her eyes tilt upward like those of a possessed doll. Billie Eilish and the Changing Face of Pop 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z
The draped ivy was real and authentically drooping. Stage reader review roundup: your take on Damned by Despair and This House 2012-10-12T15:11:55Z
The cape dress with lace sleeves, which she wore to the event, droops from its hanger on the auction rack. Special Report: Fashion: Elizabeth Taylor?s Wardrobe and Jewelry To Be Auctioned 2011-09-12T11:40:48Z
One of her eyes is lively, but the other droops downwards as if injured or sad, and there is rueful twist to her smile. Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind – review 2013-02-10T00:05:45Z
When water lifts its leaves from their drooping torpor, the minor act of resurrection makes me feel like I have powers. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z
Moving up the Guggenheim ramp, we find the chairs’ black leather upholstery and muslin innards drooping from the wall, like flayed skins; the chairs’ disassembled arms huddle in a corner. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z
They re-created canine facial features that could convey human emotion, such as a quizzical raised eyebrow, a sad droop of the ears or a flash of bared teeth. In ‘Isle of Dogs,’ Wes Anderson Applied Puppet Lessons From ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z
Are those deeply lined, drooping visages their real faces or gruesome masks? The most hated man in art-house cinema 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z
She sang loudly and in tune, though she wasn’t fussy about it, and she let some of her better lines deflate and droop. Music Review: She?s Goofing Off, and She Knows What She?s Doing 2011-04-14T07:50:29Z
By coat check, people sit on the floor checking their phones, heads drooping like week-old flowers. O Cold Night! 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z
It’s a massive, bulbous, inexplicably sexual thing that droops down from the ceiling and fills the whole space. Sociologist Sarah Thornton scrutinizes the insular art world
Audiences are treated to the many, many shades of feeling that Close expresses, sometimes through the barest eye movement or slight lift or droop of a lip. Joan Castleman, Meet Glenn Close. What Happens When a Book’s Character Comes to Life. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z
A soft whisper of violins yields to sighing, drooping sounds throughout the strings, then forthright brass fanfares begin; they recur throughout the piece, a kind of periodic annunciation. Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z
It droops ever so slightly, not very much more than a millimetre. Kitagawa Utamaro 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z
Presumably this is what Mr. Bailey hopes to invoke by playing Dusty Springfield and Cliff Richard tunes at his show and by filling his front row with jailbait rockers with drooping forelocks and pouty lips. Review: With Weather as a Composed Prop 2011-01-15T20:42:43Z
All of a sudden we’re standing up, and we lose control of the muscles in our face, our lips start drooping, and we start drooling on each other. Bret Michaels, Duff McKagan and Sebastian Bach Reminisce 2012-06-08T12:12:52Z
However you choose to read falling hemlines — as a new “New Look” or a classic response to a drooping economy — maxi-shapes are being offered with some conviction. For the New Season, Sleek Severity Rules 2010-09-06T18:30:00Z
The branches drooped with heavy, aromatic green fruit. Books of Style: Two Books on Perfume ? Review 2011-11-16T17:06:02Z
And the final scenes set in the past, while flecked by some lovely writing, occasionally droop with high-flown lyricism. Theater Review: ‘Row After Row’ Explores Civil War Re-Enactors 2014-01-24T03:01:02Z
I asked the tall man with the large turban and the drooping mustache. Explorer: Pyramids by the Nile. Egypt? No, Sudan. 2012-10-05T15:50:42Z
A drought earlier this year rendered many hillsides tan instead of green — drooping sunflowers with browning leaves were a common sight — but I still encountered one of the most beautiful landscapes I’d ever seen. Italy’s landlocked Umbria is like Tuscany without the crowds 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z
There may be places where the story begins to droop, but, if we are to judge a psychological thriller by its ability to worm its way into our psyche, then “Servant” certainly performs its duties. Review | As a disturbing psychological thriller, ‘Servant’ succeeds. But it might hit too close to home. 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z
Throughout the rooms, dramatic boughs of foliage tickle the low ceiling, or droop from mantelpieces towards the floor. How one Cape Cod home kept its faded glory 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z
Dapper Dan was among the Met Gala attendees who dressed for camp with an eye toward the traditional paraphernalia of masculinity: sweeping tailcoats, drooping ties, canes and walking sticks. The Best-Dressed Men at the Met Gala 2019: Risking Foolishness, Arriving at Defiant Good Taste 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z
Single shoulders twitch and shrug; a head droops over the legs and jerks to the side. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z
His magazine has drooped; he is picking his nose and staring into space. Wrecked by Charlotte Roche – review 2013-05-08T11:00:00Z
Examples of these symptoms include “chest pain, difficulty breathing, face drooping, arm weakness or speech difficulty, or acute injury or trauma,” Goodman said. Which non-covid doctor’s visits should you make, keep, postpone or do by telemedicine? 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z
With sufficient egg-laying, the branches will die and droop by summer’s end. The cicadas are coming. But gardeners need not panic. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z
Like an ice cream cone on a warm summer day, his faun seems almost to melt into the stone on which he sprawls, drooping atop a limp animal skin. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z
Above me dripped my rubber pants and jacket; a row of socks and gloves drooped forlornly from the shower rod, the commingling smells somewhere between wet dog and bog mud. Kayak, bushwhack and get to know scat on an adventure cruise to Alaska 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z
The baths were forced to close soon after the election when the old boiler packed up and bits of roof started drooping into one of the pools. Making a splash: newly restored Kentish Town baths reopen 2010-07-26T17:50:00Z
A drooping shark, made of stuffed beige cotton, sits at an undersized modern desk, fins poised as if it’s typing. ‘Cosima von Bonin,’ Swimming Against the Tide 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z
New York restaurant owner Jeremy Merrin has seen business droop in recent weeks at his Havana Central eatery in Times Square. Strong dollar could scare tourists away from U.S. 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z
Their faces greyed, their shoulders drooped and eventually he had decided that he could take no more. Everyone has a novel in them – but what's in Nick Clegg's? 2012-06-07T11:00:01Z
In moments of great displeasure, Penn’s lip actually curls and his eyelids droop so low that he begins to look stoned on his own contempt. T Magazine: The Accidental Activist 2011-03-25T19:21:15Z
One or two of these jokes made me smile, but as they kept cropping up, the smile drooped into a grimace. Review: ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ and His Misfortunes 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z
They would see a wrinkled American flag drooping over the witness stand, and a U.S. Asleep at the Roger Clemens trial 2012-06-10T13:00:00Z
Don’t be surprised if you see Cupid’s wings drooping. Stationery stores are in trouble, but our love for Valentine’s Day cards burns hotter than ever 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z
“Grief is certainly no beauty maker. My eyelids are starting to droop,” she wrote in one post, worrying that her “jowly bits” made her look not only older, but “somehow bitter.” Paulina Porizkova, Full-Frontal Emotion 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z
We floated along in the early morning under the towering crags, listening to birds singing and the calls of distant monkeys as bamboo and banana leaves drooped into the water. Laos town known for drunkenness and tourist deaths cleans up its act 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z
Everything droops, wrinkles, falls out, detumesces, dries up or, embarrassingly, wets itself. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z
They were perfect caricatures of themselves, with oversize palms that drooped languidly over lagoons with chunky cuticles of paper-white sand. Explorer: At the End of Eden, Rustic Tranquillity 2013-09-12T16:37:46Z
Then her shoulders drooped a little and the volume of her naturally lively voice dropped considerably. Tatiana Maslany Plays Many Characters in ‘Orphan Black’ 2014-04-17T12:00:01Z
A good minute or two passed as the speedometer drooped to 65, 62, 59, 55, until finally the other lane opened up. To Campuses Without a Compass 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z
With tendrils drooping down, extending its length to an astonishing 10.2 inches, it suggests a corsage gone awry or dripping blood — disconcerting and oddly beautiful. The Brooch Is Back, Baby 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z
These mystery ventures, a drooping eyelid, the fight to find a word — or, conversely, the sudden concern over an oil pipeline in Seattle, suggested brain metastasis. What he said before he died 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z
The handsome man crouched, his posture drooping with the trees. Joe Dunthorne short story: The Shapes We Made 2012-12-23T00:06:34Z
"A site like Glenfinlas is a useful talisman for that type of thinking," says Hamilton, as around him water foams, willows droop, and lichen clings to rocks as old as time. When John Ruskin and John Everett Millais took the high road 2010-06-20T21:01:00Z
A rabbit trap is “a drooping bouquet of rusted steel”. The way of the world 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z
Roses droop under tons of mythical baggage; they’re overexposed, ardently mediocre. | Floral and Hardy 2011-02-08T20:46:38Z
The middle section droops and not all the performances pop. ‘The Last Mercenary’ Review: Still Kicking 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z
Grady was leaning against the desk, head drooped to one side, with an expression approaching stupor. Frugal Traveler: In Washington, Art and the 6-Year-Old 2013-07-02T20:19:03Z
Look: a man stopped on a street corner, standing stork-like on one leg, his foot temporarily unshod as he tugs up a drooping sock. Bruce Gilden’s Gritty Vision of a Lost New York 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z
A dance that seeks to represent the experience of sleeping — that sounds like a risky prospect, tempting viewers’ eyelids to droop in a darkened theater. Review: Dancing in the Liquid Realm of Dreams 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z
It also causes that dreaded shrinkage that can occur when the crust droops down from the lip of the pie plate. How to blind-bake pie crust like a pro 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z
Plus, the outer leaves seemed to have a higher propensity toward drooping than the inner ones. How to stop your basil from wilting immediately 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z
A single drooping sunflower, and then a bouquet of them, in a simple jug. Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z
Roses, just beyond the far edge of ripeness, when the petals begin to droop like tears clinging to your eyes in the milliseconds before an emotional outburst. These bottles will help you drink like a Founding Father 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z
At one large farm, rows of flowery, cactuslike dragonfruit plants droop over their wire props, heavy with juice that stains our fingers and lips a bright purply pink. A scenic spin through the hills of southwestern China 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z
Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost,And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z
His family says in a statement the 46-year-old suffered the stroke Thursday and immediately recognized the warning signs of arm weakness, face drooping and speech difficulties. Ex-Patriot, ESPN analyst Bruschi recovering after 2nd stroke 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z
If you're using the . . . with the bend method, you slide a insulated, gloved hand under the brisket, lift it up and if it droops like a sad mustache, you're in business. Steven Raichlen's epistle to the brisketeers is what you need for Memorial Day 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z
I moved away to Idaho soon after, for a newspaper job, but we visited every weekend and spent our weeknights FaceTiming until we fell asleep watching each other’s digitized eyes drooping on our smartphone screens. Our marriage can’t be denied 2014-01-12T00:00:00Z
Long pleated skirts added fluidity to the bulk of black jackets worn over thick knits that curved up into lapels and drooped down the leg. 2010-01-19T05:09:00Z
What audiences will see is a aging star who isn't afraid of showing his drooping muscles and widening paunch, or of making fun of being past his prime. Schwarzenegger is back, and Hollywood hopes he's still a star 2013-01-06T21:34:18Z
The garden around me has started to take on a frazzled look: leaves are drooping, and yellowing at the edges. Tim Dowling: I’m American, I can handle a heatwave. Right? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z
Also known as coast live oak, the red oak is a slow-growing evergreen with dark, sharp-toothed leaves and flowers that droop down like tiny garlands in the spring. In Search of the California Barbecue Tradition 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z
A football game is just barely visible on a TV over the mantel; from the bottom of the mantel droops a paper sign that says, with glittery dollar-store sadness, “Happy Birthday.” Riff: Reaction Videos as Anthropological Study of America 2011-11-27T04:00:09Z
His purple sports coat droops on his shoulders, but he worries that if he has it taken in to fit his new frame, he will jinx himself and regain the weight he has lost. Director Kevin Smith on heart attacks, happiness, extreme weight loss – and Weinstein 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z
It wasn’t even noon and already his tangle of dreamy curls was starting to droop. Noah Centineo Is Hot. If Only He Could Cool Off. 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z
A governor's commission on Asian Pacific American affairs said Monday that Opera Philadelphia is modifying or removing narrow drooping Fu Manchu mustaches on several characters. Opera company revising 'Turandot' over Asian depictions 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z
Onetime smashes such as "Survivor" and "Dancing With the Stars" are drooping with age. Reality TV facing its own reality: a ratings slump 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z
And when she falls asleep sitting on her couch, eyes closed as a column of smoldering ash precariously droops from her cigarette, he also imagines himself holding an ashtray under its burning tip. ‘Decision to Leave’ Review: A Labyrinth of Desire 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z
The plotlines aren’t that different, but in the first category, characters respond to pain with charm and wit, while in the other, their shoulders droop, and they stew in bad lighting. ‘Finding Carter,’ Starring Kathryn Prescott, Debuts on MTV 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z
She taught us memorable phrases like “cedar swoops, hemlock droops” and confirmed that no bears call this place home. Seattle summer staycation: 3 day trips to take from the Seattle waterfront 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z
Is the “Nude Woman, Seated, Bending Forward” drooping from exhaustion, or towel drying her hair? Art Review: ?Degas and the Nude? at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-10-20T20:19:22Z
Sadly, these chicken dogs, once off the flame, deflated like a rooster’s drooping comb. In search of America's best hot dog: 14 supermarket varieties, taste-tested 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z
Young men in drooping trousers and women in miniskirts dance, raise their hands in the air and grind pelvis to pelvis amid whooping, clapping and coarse jokes. Cuba targets racy reggaeton in lyrics crackdown 2013-01-07T20:12:27Z
He trudged to the FedEx Field locker room, head hung low and shoulders drooping, under a torrent of boos. Is Kirk Cousins capable of greatness? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z
In this “Étude de Fesses,” painted around 1884 and a rare loan from a private collection, the right cheek droops inches below the left, which is squared off where the sitzfleisch meets the thigh. ‘Rear View’ Is Rather Forward Thinking 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z
Perhaps the conflicting vision of the Phillip Lim woman came from the asymmetric effects that brought skirt hems riding high at one side but drooping like a collapsed sail at the other. Special Report: Sleek, Simple-And Ever So Streamlined 2010-02-18T12:49:00Z
This is no drooping rural chatelaine, but a woman who is totally unhinged by love. A Month in the Country 2010-10-01T20:29:00Z
His shoulders droop as he tells me about what it was like to be back in Connecticut with his overattentive mom. Seventeen Days on a Locked Ward 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z
They can be injected into the lines around your mouth, so they are fainter; and in the corners of your mouth to stop drooping. ‘I’d rather spend £300 on fillers than face cream’: the rise of tweakment face 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z
The neck thickened, the stomach grew and drooping lids narrowed the eyes. A man in full 2014-04-16T04:00:00Z
Coussot’s mangled body droops from the restraints, while blood pools from his ears and nose. Louisiana’s hidden history: The former slave who became an executioner 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z
On the screen is a scrolling Twitter feed filled with photos of a muscular, tattooed gentleman posing in various strategically positioned outfits — a metal-studded leather harness, snug-fitting underpants, precipitously drooping boxer shorts. Your new boss is going to Google you. Make sure she likes what she sees.
There is a melancholy droop to his eyes and mouth, a stubborn set to his jaw. Thomas Jay Ryan Embraces a Comfortably Unpredictable Acting Career 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z
Dr. Anthony Youn, a cosmetic surgeon in Detroit, said that as we age, the corners of our mouths droop, causing us to look a little more grumpy — a natural response to gravity and genetics. I’m Not Mad. That’s Just My RBF. 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z
Billowed with fresh fruit and a syrupy drizzle, veiled with tender cake crumbs, it has the dazzling color and softly drooping tip of a cartoon dessert. Mickey Bars, Turkey Legs and the Obsession With Disney Food 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z
A sleeping moviegoer, a drooping box office -- and a poll Last night, at a screening of "Red Riding Hood," the woman next to me fell asleep. A sleeping moviegoer, a drooping box office -- and a poll 2011-03-08T18:24:05Z
What would there be to joke about when even the flowers refused to droop and everything was perfect? No joke, being a psychiatric patient has its funny side 2010-08-04T09:53:00Z
When their breakneck-speed tourist bus and grim hotel room disappoint, they droop for a moment — just long enough for madcap heiress Cordelia Winthrop Scott to totter into the movie, on her very expensive heels. 'Monte Carlo': You can bet teen girls will like it 2011-06-30T19:37:03Z
The banana should be seen in the context of this earlier work, which places the art market itself on the wall, drooping and pitiful. A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z
He gave an added twist to the woodwind droops, snarls and swoops in the closing “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath,” making the whole deliciously grotesque. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z
The candles droop, sag and curl over the surfaces like so many tubers, intestines or slugs. In L.A. galleries now: A celebration of black women, a cheeky take on living with disability 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z
Who manages to steal the movie effortlessly with every droop of his already furrowed brow? The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z
When he settled down to a piano, the music drooped into new-age territory, but his hyperactive one-man-band act kept things popping. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z
One set of before and after photos seemed to imply that a high colonic could transform an unkempt, drooping moustache into a vigorous, curlicued handlebar. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z
Burgeoning buds, a drooping petal or a yellowing leaf, as well as the startling beauty of full-fledged flowers, tell the story of each plant’s past, present and future. | Carmen Almon, The Naturalist 2013-08-21T19:11:13Z
My father sighed, his wide shoulders drooping as he took off his cap and embraced my mother. The Christmas Wreath 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z
Candlelight flickers up the walls, illuminating the drooping tongues of gargoyles. In search of a very British, and rural, kind of horror 2013-02-05T11:33:50Z
Their white crests, majestic in the promotional materials, drooped over their eyes. Modern Love: Diving Deep to Reach the Surface 2010-09-17T20:18:00Z
Jolie credits acupuncture for helping her to recover from the condition, which had caused one side of her face to droop. Money 'taken from Cambodian child' in casting game for Angelina Jolie movie 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z
He also reeled off a non-stop list of failures to an already deflated Michael over his cheesecake surprise – “It droops, half of it is missing, it’s cracked down the middle, the icing looks terrible.” Bake Off is broken – here's how to fix it 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z
There is a gentle sag to the flesh around his mouth, a hollowness under the eyes, which droop slightly, and a small crease in the skin of his forehead. Met exhibit shatters 19th-century myths about ancient Egypt 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z
Devastation was everywhere – houses mangled, roofs missing, power lines drooping alarmingly overhead. A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z
It’s a massive, bulbous, inexplicably sexual thing that droops down from the ceiling and fills the space. Style Invitational Week 1103: Themes good to us — pair a TV show and a song 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z
The deciduous leaves are drooping and furrowed and resemble buckeye leaves. Where have all the butterflies gone?
The cheek droops, the lips purse, as if Marat were still speaking in the people’s name. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z
This is an opera that blasts and scrapes, flickers and droops, with growling aggression giving way to delicate twinkling. Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z
By the time we sidled up to a West End bar, our eyelids were drooping. A first-timer’s fresh view of Vancouver, B.C. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z
More than that, her manic laughter, gulping breaths and drooping shocks are carried off with such authenticity that they reframe hysteria as a natural, even brave, response to deprivation and constant insult. Review: Marin Ireland, on Fire in ‘Summer and Smoke’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z
The “Funny Girl” revival opened last April, but critics were generally underwhelmed by Feldstein’s performance, and sales had begun to droop by summer. Broadway’s ‘Funny Girl’ to Close Labor Day Weekend 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z
To be sure, though, there was something uncanny — even a little creepy — about these performers who moved a little sluggishly, their eyes drooped. You Are Getting Sleepy. When You Wake Up, You Will Be an Improv Star. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z
The singers weren't helped by conductor Adam Fischer's tendency to let the tempos droop, sapping energy from a score that should throb with vitality. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z
My second cruise, from 1980 to 1981, was wonderfully timed for a resurgence of energy in an art world that, like me, had drooped through the seventies. The Closing of the Village Voice, Downtown’s Magic Mirror 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z
Even now, I can still see him: The droop of his eyelids. Trying to Separate Bill Cosby From Cliff Huxtable 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z
But after a while, “my eye starts to droop.” This Life: Time for a Truce in the Bragging Wars 2013-02-01T22:06:28Z
Wilde’s wit is tricky, though; it sits on bedrock of great moral heft, yet if played with any weightiness, it droops. Theater Heads North, and in Every Direction at Once 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z
The peak here is “Slow Descent,” which nods to both the hard slap of late ’90s drum and bass and also the bleary droops of Portishead. Review: Shlohmo’s ‘Dark Red’ Puts a Spin on the 1990s 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z
On male, female and genderless figures in religious paintings and statues, earrings droop to the shoulders, and necklaces come with matching belts, armbands, anklets and toe rings. Antiques: Moonlight and More From a Victorian Artist 2011-03-03T22:12:19Z
She sat at the far end of the teak table, her wilted head drooping into a teacup. “I had never known a man could have two wives”: My Karachi family’s shame 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z
Imagine a strap attached to the bottom of men’s T-shirts, then drooping down to circle the upper leg, or sliced out of the hem of a miniskirt into two loops, its purpose unclear. Burberry’s 50 Shades of the British Bourgeoisie 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z
However high your hopes are for Thor 3, the fact that Marvel already has three films locked into the 2020 release calendar should be enough to make your shoulders droop. A John Wick 'expanded universe' – Hollywood's most idiotic idea yet? 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z
Thorgerson was an impish visionary, a charming figure of bodily droop and deadpan wit. Review: ‘Taken by Storm,’ About the Mind Behind a Design 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
Ensemble passages drooped and slurred as if in a narcotic haze, or spun like dizzying kaleidoscope pinwheels. Music Review: International Contempory Ensemble at Rose Theater 2012-08-06T22:19:56Z
They're charming together, particularly when Henry gives Louis a dance lesson on a sandy beach, whirling side-by-side as Henry barks out instructions and the sun droops in the sky. 'The Extra Man': An extra-fun role for Kevin Kline 2010-08-12T20:24:00Z
The slender gray leaves are drooping, and some of the lower ones are black. Granny’s flowers these are not: Two perennials that deserve a revival 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z
Part sports memoir, part spiritual treatise, part management how-to, each book has a bit for everyone, and a bit to make everyone’s eyelids droop. From Lao Tzu to Layups, 1,682 Pages of Phil Jackson 2014-04-03T15:44:55Z
Earlier in the hearing, Weinstein had the white mask drooping from his right ear as he sat in what appeared to be a prison meeting room. Judge OKs Weinstein’s extradition for California rape case 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z
We are drawn to the cracks in a wall, the cake with a slight droop, because these are what make something — or someone — individual. Modern Love: Romance, the Ultimate Souvenir 2012-09-07T00:15:52Z
"I'm actually really happy it's a slow-grow situation," says Andrew, his eyes fathomless pools of despair masked too slightly by his drooping peroxide fringe. Cable Girl: Louie Spence's Showbusiness 2011-01-04T08:00:01Z
Based on what little news we got about the show’s sixth season today, that quality doesn’t seem like it’s going to be drooping at all. Taye Diggs joining the cast of The Good Wife is excellent news indeed 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z
Huge trees line the road: spruce with its thick, sharp needles; the graceful hemlock with its drooping branches; thick-barked Douglas Fir and my favorite — the most iconic, dramatic of them all — cedar. The fight to save our off-the-grid forest home 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z
The story ends with him alone, no longer evoking the past or pretending to be someone else, reflecting intensely, only then to droop, while petals fall. Dance Review: Kabuki With Bando Kotoji at Japan Society 2012-04-01T21:13:38Z
With a straight handle for a nose above the container’s own gaping round mouth, and a semicircular indentation for drooping brows, the work becomes not merely a face but an expressive one. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z
Though a warm presence onstage, he appeared to have become his own statue — body calcified by age, voice creaky, chin drooping to his chest. Perspective | John Prine’s lyrical one-liners could take your breath away 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z
But also less, judging, at least, from the stupendous droop of my mouth. Jerrod Carmichael Knows How to Wear the Truth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z
She has drooping breasts, a paunchy stomach and, endearingly, carefully incised fat folds, or love handles, on her back. Ice age art at the British Museum was crafted by 'professional' artists 2013-01-24T15:02:19Z
Sudden drooping slides and players sawing away at their string instruments, punctuated by the somberly shuddering twang of horn and trumpet, give a sense of wandering and rootlessness. Review: An Opera Reaches the American Dream’s Brooding Heart 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z
Giving power to pleats and taking the droop out of drapes is the mission at Vionnet, where the fabled heritage of its founder has to be reset for the modern age. Special Report: Fashion: Life on the Ocean Wave 2010-10-01T18:50:00Z
Yet, in Bonnet’s rendering, the hair is not a cascade of comely curls, but a stolid helmet obscuring the entirety of her face — except, of course, for her long, drooping, teardrop nose. Full-frontal absurdity: The world of Louise Bonnet's fleshy, surreal portraits 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z
In frame one, Charlie Brown is shuffling along, baseball cap peak drooping to the ground. Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z
The reanimated Jon Snow has not gotten any extra energy from this trip into the afterlife - still the same drooping around. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 3: His Watch Is Ended 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z
Clarence, Jr., for his part, is wearing a terrifically tall hat with a large feather drooping from one side, and has a pointy goatee. The Best Song for Soothing Your Election Anxiety 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z
Denying a raptor its prey was nothing she routinely did or recommended, but finding the bluebird uninjured except for a drooping wing, she released him in her yard, where nest boxes and food were provided. 'The Bluebird Effect': a bird lover's essays and lovely illustrations 2012-04-20T20:49:08Z
By 2013, Hannity’s audience was shrinking; it was the year after a presidential election, when cable news numbers typically droop, but Fox News, still under Ailes’s iron leadership, was talking about changing the channel’s approach. The making of Sean Hannity: How a Long Island kid learned to channel red-state rage 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z
The Haydn symphony — a work full of musical jokes — got a precise, vivid reading, with Hrusa indicating a progressive diminuendo by drooping like a wilting flower. Review: Expressive conductor plus exuberant soloist equals stirring evening 2011-05-06T17:10:05Z
When you sleep on your back, the tissues in your upper airways might droop, and “you have a much greater chance of snoring,” Schwartz says. Why you snore, when to be concerned and how to stop 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z
For one Brooklyn homeowner, Ms. Muñoz put a schefflera tree in the kids’ room, with rich, green foliage that droops like an umbrella. You Can Pay People to Style Your Houseplants 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z
He promised “the youngest, hippest writers in town” and the camera panned to a group of drooping, old white men from the film “Moneyball.” The TV Watch: Billy Crystal?s Shtick, and the Academy, Need Freshening 2012-02-27T05:54:50Z
One hand hanging limply, her mouth drooping, Ms. Huppert graphically depicts the symptoms of a stroke and the painful rehabilitation. ‘Abuse of Weakness’ Stars Isabelle Huppert and Kool Shen 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z
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