She dreads the future, she weeps, and she droops her head.
Among it rises a stalk of wheat, which to-day is surmounted by a sickly ear that droops its yellow head.
And paler droops the flower of France, And brighter glows proud England's rose, As charge they on with sabre-glance, And thunders thickening as they close!
The hideous sky droops darkly down In brooding swathes of misty gloom, And seems to wrap the fated town In shadows of remorseless doom.
So much for the glad weather; but, when the sky droops low, and leaping waves of mournful hue seem to rear themselves and mingle with the clouds, then the gladness is not so apparent.
My clothes are worn to threads and loops; My skin shows here and there; About my face like seaweed droops My tangled beard, my tangled hair; From cavernous and shaggy brows My stony eyes untroubled stare.
The long robe droops to the feet, the hands that toiled unweariedly for beauty and for immortal art, now lie motionless on the breast.
O under that moon where she droops almost down into the sea!
He takes her kerchief end, as it droops away from her pretty long throat, in his fingers; he looks down deep into her eyes; his voice shakes, so does his hand.
Lady Peggy's head droops a bit to match her voice, whilst Chockey's bright little eyes sparkle, and she twists the yellow butter into heart shapes as she pricks her ears and sighs.
I am watching--I am waiting; And my heart droopssad and low.
And, haply, when the evening droops Her amber eyelids in the west, Here one might hear the swish of hoops, Or catch the glint of hat or vest, As two dim lovers past him pressed.
Night comes at last, and wearinessdroops upon the flesh.
All my life I envied persons with straight noses till I began to observe that with age the straight nose droops into a beak, whereas the youthful tip-tilt and concavity kind straightens its end to a fair classicism.
And to thy level and thy passions all I raise the puny hillock of my soul, Tho' oft it droops below thy lofty height, Far 'mid the crimson clouds of windless dawns Reaching the ruby of a glorious crest.
In dreams, he sees a palm-tree In the golden morning-land; She droops alone and silent In burning wastes of sand.
Send him to the desert alone, he is a plant torn from his roots: the form indeed may remain, but every faculty droops and withers; the human personage and the human character cease to exist.
Unto her breast her hands are tightly pressed, She bravely struggles with the old unrest; Yet lower droops her form, the lashes sweep Across her cheeks.
The dancing ray grew strangely still, Just like some weary bird, That droops upon a lonely shore, And sings its song unheard.
Then presently her head droops low again, She draws away--there comes a bitter pain.
The day is dead, And night droops low her sable plumes To mourn the glory fled.
The tamarind on gleaming sands Droops drowsily beneath the heat; And bowed as though aweary, stands The stately palm, with lazy hands That fold their shadows round his feet.
THE SAME OLD STORY The same old story told again-- The maiden droops her head, The ripening glow of her crimson cheek Is answering in her stead.
These flowers grow in spikes near the end of thin woody stems, and each flower has a very short stalk which droops slightly.
This flower-stalk droops when the flowers are in bud, and again when the flowers are faded.
After the flower bursts out of the sheath, it droops from the end of a slender flower-stalk.
But when later this same dog grows old and dirty and droops his mangy ears he looses him, and, taking off his collar, at least saves that.
From their situation they are out of ordinary sight; but they will well repay examination.
And though the corolla is rarely green, yet neither are proper leaves always green.
If the Line of Head is long, but droops towards the Mountain of the Moon, it signifies ideality in excess.
A rather long but not flat upper lip, especially where the serpentine line of the middle of the mouth is much defined and the middle of the lip droops to the lower lip and is very flexible, denotes an eloquent person.
If the under lip should be very full as well as projecting and droops in a flaccid manner without closing over the teeth when the lips are in repose, it is a sign of a sensual nature.
A star on the Line of Head means a wound on the head, or madness if the line droops much to the Mount of the Moon, and the star appears at its termination.
Now droops the willow o'er the stream; Pale stalks his ghost in yonder grove; Dire fancy paints him in my dream; Awake I mourn my hopeless love.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "droops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
