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How to pronounce drooping in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cernuous, nodding, pendulous, weeping


lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers.
Type Words
Synonyms flagging
Type Words
Synonyms droopy, sagging

Examples of drooping

drooping
Each year the bushes seem to be thicker with great drooping, pyramidal blossoms.
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The aircraft industry is drooping because of transition from planes to missiles.
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By the time gardeners notice the flowers drooping, it's too late to do anything.
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On one branch, drooping leaves look like so much wet laundry hanging out to dry.
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A shoulder bag with drooping fringe completed the hippie de luxe, 1970s message.
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Even the croupiers look a bit tawdry, their bow ties drooping in the stale air.
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Her initial symptoms included double vision, a drooping eyelid and a slow gait.
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His only meat is a benign glob of fat, drooping ever lower from his narrow chest.
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Drooping demand and a steadily swelling surplus production of some 2 million bbl.
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More examples
  • Sag: a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat"
  • Sag: droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
  • Hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled"
  • Wilt: become limp; "The flowers wilted"
  • (drooping) weak from exhaustion
  • (drooping) cernuous: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"
  • A proportionalu2013integralu2013derivative controller (PID controller) is a control loop feedback mechanism (controller) commonly used in industrial control systems. A PID controller continuously calculates an error value as the difference between a desired setpoint and a measured process variable...
  • Droop is the phenomenon that efficiency of a light-emitting diode tends to decrease for increasing current.
  • (Drooping) Alcohol intoxication (also known as drunkenness or being drunk or inebriated) is a physiological state occurring when an organism has a high level of ethanol in its bloodstream, or when ethanol otherwise causes the physiological effect known as drunkenness. ...