Verb (used with object) : an eagle drooping its wings. From Dictionary.com.
The long, graceful catkins are drooping from the birches, and the more slender clusters are also in flower on the oaks. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
To wake, to warblej and to woo No Linnet calls his drooping love. From Wordnik.com. [Ode to the Honourable William Pitt ..] Reference
Paula called drooping, and even excited alarm in her, lest Flapsy should be going into a decline. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Broods] Reference
Dalbert sprang back, with his thumb still in his mouth, and his sword drooping, scowling darkly at the new-comer. From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
Her relatives had also noted "drooping" of her eyelids, which was worse on the right and most noticeable in the evenings. From Wordnik.com. [BMJ Recent Articles] Reference
"Last time I was up this way that tree was kind of drooping and discouraged. From Wordnik.com. [A Country Road] Reference
Beneath an old willow, whose drooping boughs form quite. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Brown's eyes were wide; the other man's jaw was drooping. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
The paths are solitary, the plants are drooping in the heat. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A sort of joyous chuckle escaped from the Colonel's drooping moustache. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Jane's glance flew to the drooping, willowy figure clinging to Garth's arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
The fat white daisies perk immediately; the drooping roses take a bit longer. From Wordnik.com. [Watering] Reference
Long wavy hair, a sharp nose, eyes brows drooping and eyes like an innocent doe. From Wordnik.com. [Dangle Veils] Reference
He had taken me in his arms and pillowed my drooping head upon his manly breast. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
He stood now with his head drooping; he no longer swatted at flies with his tail. From Wordnik.com. [Shorty] Reference
She said she had surgery a week later in Los Angeles to correct a drooping right toe. From Wordnik.com. [Serena Williams reveals details of her serious foot injury] Reference
Marie, drooping her head, saw nothing but the brown, damp earth scattered by the wheels. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"I am not guilty; at least, not so much as you think I am --" said she, drooping her head. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His eyes were half-closed, drooping serenely, as if he was enjoying his dreams before dying. From Wordnik.com. [Even the Good Days] Reference
The front grille's broken, the back bumper's drooping, and the Pinto slumps like it's tired. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Pinto] Reference
All but Larry who, with sleepily drooping crown, was that moment taken up and prepared for bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
In one, her nearly decapitated head is drooping out the shattered window of her father's Porsche. From Wordnik.com. [A Tragedy That Won’t Fade Away] Reference
"Lassen uns haben ein Picknick," the father kept grimly intoning to his drooping, miserable family. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From America: Real People Don't Kick Back] Reference
If only the same were true in Washington, where almost every homeland-security initiative is drooping. From Wordnik.com. [Better Late Than Never] Reference
They were both starting to get that drooping chin so many middle-aged lawyers get from lack of exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie, Attorneys at Law] Reference
But in the other corner was a great pile of cakes, and by them perched the parrot, his feathers all drooping. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
Vincart, dozing, in his usual supine attitude, his hands spread out, his eyelids drooping, his mouth half open. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Even when used for its FDA-approved purpose, Botox results in the occasional wayward eyebrow or drooping eyelid. From Wordnik.com. [The Botox Boom] Reference
She stepped into the bedroom doorway, the quilt drooping from her shoulders like tattered wings, her eyes fogged. From Wordnik.com. [Not There] Reference
The placemat-sized landscape is populated with drooping pocketwatches that suggest the dreamy irrelevance of time. From Wordnik.com. [The Lust for Late] Reference
I remained alone drooping under the weight of a misfortune, which was the more severe, because totally unexpected. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
You may think your expression is set at neutral, but to others the downward drooping may make it look as if you're scowling. From Wordnik.com. [Cheating Time] Reference
My sister Rifka fell in love with a Yakuty sled driver, he was a short, dark man with a long drooping mustache. From Wordnik.com. [Reindeer Nights] Reference
When the dreadful storm had passed, the flowers and the wheat raised their drooping heads, clean and refreshed in the pure, sweet air. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
The thought of appearing before all these people -- don't the flowers drooping from my head make my neck appear rather awkward, Ernest?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Almost forty years of life had begun to drain me of my vitality, and this showed in the expansion of my gut and drooping of my shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Mississippi Blues] Reference
He had even seen them: affectless men and women with a deathlike pallor, high nasal voices, and the characteristic drooping at the chin. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie, Attorneys at Law] Reference
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