There was a soft tapping on my door.
Sale has dropped off.
The fruit dropped off the tree.
Business dropped off sharply during the recession.
The spectators dropped off to get refreshment.
The man dropped off as soon as the bus stopped.
I had no toenails—they had dropped off from decay.
Since then, hurricane incidence has dropped off the charts.
Had these been leaves of trees they would have duly dropped off.
That is, the load is dropped off in the proportion to the crack length.
Two years later, earnings from the stocks had dropped off by nearly 50%.
But somehow I dropped off at last, and knew nothing more till break of day.
He dropped off at the square and changed to a suburban bus.
By degrees, as they could bear no more, they dropped off one by one, and lights twinkled in little casements;
When Becky followed them to the table of drawings, they dropped off one by one to the fire again.
As for poor Leo, after turning restlessly for hours, at last he had dropped off into a sleep or stupor.
But when Karine and I dropped off the other guests at the train station, we felt strangely like a married couple, relieved to finally have our space back.
For example, upon approaching a dry cleaners, an application could notify the user to pick up any clothes that had been dropped off and are now ready.
It was Saturday and the art enthusiasts were out, so, with coffee in hand, I dropped off our host at work.
The rate of the diaphragmatic hernia after surgery of oesophagus cancer or cardia cancer dropped off significantly after improvement of surgery.
He was like some star creature who had drafted in on the tail of a comet and dropped off at the end of her lane.
MILAN - Goalscorer Andriy Shevchenko said: 'we started well then dropped off when we took the lead and we gave away a goal but in the second half we came out well and created plenty of good chances.
The main entrance is no longer accessible from the road; guards check under the bonnets of approaching cars, and guests are dropped off at a screening centre a long walk away.
Museum tour over, we drive back into town past the yellow bulk of the Holiday Inn, famous for being the only operational hotel during the siege, and I am dropped off at my backpackers' hostel.
From which the blood dropped off and fell on the most fragile glass, sounded pleasantly though it's harsh to myself. I was waiting for the breakage of the glass gradually.
Spaceflight dropped off the front pages - though on Saturday, all will report the successful launching of the Atlantis, at 11:29 a.m. Eastern time Friday, two and a half minutes behind schedule.
When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbor from the shark factory; but today there was only the faint edge of the odor because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace.
